Patrick McGee

In 2025, Patrick McGee published Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company , a deeply-reported look at the tech giant's investment in — and growing reliance on — China.

Now 50 years old, Apple has been central to tech's greatest advances, and its worst misuses.

Winston Churchill called it “the most daring and courageous act of the entire war”. On August 30 1945, General Douglas MacArthur landed in Atsugi...

Japanese industry and Chinese manufacturing prowess played roles in the tech giant’s success, with consequences for both

John Ternus is taking over from Tim Cook as CEO of the most successful company on Earth. He will need to take risks to keep it that way.

This piece was first published in August, 2025. If you and a friend are being chased by a bear, you don't need to outrun the bear — you just need to outrun your friend.

Tim Cook made Apple a juggernaut, but he did so by risking America’s economic and political security.

Tim Cook is ending his illustrious stint as chief executive of Apple. The soft-spoken operator accomplished the near impossible, filling the shoes of the visionary co-founder Steve Jobs, tur

An IPO could value it at close to $2 trillion. Whether it's worth that depends on how you value Elon Musk's chances of transforming civilization.

Semiconductors are the most consequential product of the modern world. If Intel can start making chips as advanced as the Taiwanese do, it could help secure America’s 21st-century economy, writes Patrick McGee.