Michigan

"At the same time, Americans should develop a bit more humility about their own technological capabilities. The sooner that the United States treats China as a peer worth studying, the sooner it can develop a new playbook for success. Chinese companies are currently beating the rest of the world in the production of electric vehicle batteries. So why not allow a few of them to build factories, as they are trying to do, in states like Michigan, and force them to give up their technology? The US government could force Chinese battery makers to transfer intellectual property in exchange for accessing the giant US market for cars."

"Jobs’s newfound enthusiasm brought out the best parts of his character: curiosity, leadership, and an ability to articulate a product path. But it brought out his worst traits, too: arrogance and a habit of belittling others. De Luca, the head of Apple marketing, recalls his embarrassment. The “Apple people” Jobs was referring to were account managers for some of Apple’s biggest clients, and their boss was humiliating them. Griffiths felt bad for them. A third person present says: “Even the account manager, who is going to pay their mortgage based on whether Michigan buys this stuff or not, was told to leave.”"

"By this time, we could see that developing large-scale retail prop¬ erties was a numbers game, a question of population (and popula¬ tion growth), income, distances, and roads. We had experienced and profited from this growth in Michigan, but we could see that other parts of the country were growing more rapidly, like California. I began to think about building there. But I faced a huge amount of threshold resistance. The logical place to expand for a company like ours would have been an adjacent area, such as northern Indiana or Chicago. We didn’t have much in the way of experience, contacts, or reputation in California, but it seemed like a natural move for me."