China Daily

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Signature MoveThirteen-Hour Meeting as Onboarding Ritual

Relationship LeverageFoxconn's Loss-Leader-to-Lock-In Playbook

Risk DoctrineTacit Knowledge as Accidental Export

Competitive AdvantageApple Squeeze: Invaluable Experience Over Margin

Identity & CultureVerbal Jujitsu Procurement Culture

Signature MoveDesign the Impossible Then Manufacture the Impossible

Signature MoveFifty Business Class Seats Daily to Shenzhen

Operating PrincipleZero Inventory as Theological Doctrine

Strategic PatternUnconstrained Design Not Cost Arbitrage

Cornerstone MoveSecret $275 Billion Kowtow to Keep the Machine Running

Signature MoveSilk Tie Competitions to Train Negotiators

Cornerstone MoveScrew It, iTunes for Windows

Cornerstone MoveBuy the Machines, Own the Factory Floor Without Owning a Factory

Signature MoveDrive Off the Cliff to Prove the Brakes Don't Work

Cornerstone MoveTrain Everyone Then Pit Them Against Each Other

Risk DoctrineRule By Law as Corporate Leash

Decision FrameworkBig Potato Small Potato: Positional Power Over Fairness

Primary Evidence

"Thousands of people who couldn’t afford iPhones found ways to buy them anyway. *China Daily* reported that a study of college students in Wuhan found that 20,000 had taken out loans with twelve-month interest rates as high as 47 percent to buy “fancy electronic products,” 90 percent of which were Apple. Perhaps the most widely publicized incident was that of a seventeen-year-old who underwent black market surgery to sell his kidney in exchange for enough cash to buy a new iPhone and an iPad."

Source:Apple in China

"Cupertino understands that openly supporting Xi’s plan for tech supremacy is politically taboo. But Apple’s message in Chinese media is, if not wildly supportive of the effort, then at least in sync with it. When *China Daily* reporters met Isabel Mahe in 2023, they quoted her saying: “Apple is happy and willing to help the country’s transition to smart manufacturing.” It paraphrased her, saying: “Previously, smart manufacturing equipment in Apple’s supply chains came mainly from non-Chinese companies, but now such equipment of local origin has become more common.” Mahe, like Cook, has portrayed these partnerships as “win-win,” seemingly oblivious to a quip that goes back at least a decade: “In China, ‘win-win’ means China wins twice.”"

Source:Apple in China

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Apple in China