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"But what [Apple are] worried about is that Android is sort of taking over the market. Obviously they go from 0 - when the iPhone comes out Android doesn't really exist - to 80% of the market in a number of years."

#PatrickMcGee, 2026

https://omny.fm/shows/the-little-red-podcast/bad-apple-how-the-world-s-greatest-company-changed-chinese-tech

This happened because unlike iThings, the original Android was an Open Source OS, which could be freely reused by device and app makers. As Android gets more and more locked down, this could happen again.

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Bad Apple? How the World’s Greatest Company Changed Chinese Tech - The Little Red Podcast

In 2013, to mark International Consumers Day, China’s state-run TV network labelled Apple a ‘bad company’. More than a decade later, despite claiming to rely on multinationals from 50 different countries, Apple still has nearly 100% of its supply chain in China. In this episode, we look at how Apple became so dependent on China, what it did to rehabilitate its image in the eyes of the Chinese government, and how it has influenced China’s aspiring global tech giants. Graeme is joined by Jianggan Li, the founder and CEO of Singapore-based Momentum Works, and the co-author of Seeing the Unseen: Behind Chinese Tech Giants’ Global Venturing and Patrick McGee, Financial Times journalist and the author of Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company. Image: c/- Gerd Eichmann, 2020. Apple Store on Nanjing Lu, Shanghai. Transcripts are available at https://ciw.anu.edu.au/podcasts/little-red-podcast

Strypey May 3, 2024

It's arguably impossible to understand modern China without understanding the Cultural Revolution and the zhiqing (sent-down youth), and the different ways that popular and official narratives of China's history treat them;
https://omny.fm/shows/the-little-red-podcast/bombard-the-past-exhuming-the-cultural-revolution

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Bombard the Past: Exhuming the Cultural Revolution - The Little Red Podcast

The exponential trauma produced by the Cultural Revolution is barely mentioned in China, yet has been foundational to a generation. Now the Communist Party is using the experience of its leader Xi Jinping as one of the 17 million young people sent down to the countryside to reframe the movement as showcasing personal sacrifice in the interests of national success. The party would like other aspects to be forgotten, such as the unimaginable violence in Chongqing or the petty brutality that set children onto their parents. In the second part of our series on history and memory, Louisa and Graeme discuss the legacies of the Cultural Revolution with sociologist Xu Bin from Emory University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the author of Chairman Mao's Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China and Guardian journalist Tania Branigan whose book Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution came out in May. Show transcript: https://www.thechinastory.org/lrp/bombard-the-past-exhuming-the-cultural-revolution/ Image: Red Guard, June 1968. c/- Wikimedia Commons and China Pictorial