https://chunghaolee.com/tags/book-review/Recent content in Book Review on Chung-Hao LeeHugoenSat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://chunghaolee.com/posts/book-review_apple-in-china/Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://chunghaolee.com/posts/book-review_apple-in-china/<p>As 2025 is about to end, I finished reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. This book is not merely a chronicle of Apple’s supply chain layout over the past two decades; it is a comprehensive retrospective on the coevolution of East Asian tech manufacturing. <br> For me, a veteran of the Taiwanese EMS industry with hands-on end to end production line management experience spanning SMT (Surface Mount Technology), and FATP (Final Assembly, Test, and Pack), every page felt less like history and more like a return to the factory floor. The book provided a macro retrospective, allowing me to re-examine the environments I once worked in. It illuminated the underlying logic behind production line designs and operations that I often missed while focusing on the daily routine jobs.</p>