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Patrick McGee
@PatrickMcGee_
Author of Apple in China — named a top book of 2025 by The New York Times, Foreign Affairs & the New Yorker. Contributor at @TheFP & @FT 🇨🇦
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    Patrick McGee
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    May 20, 2025
    Life highlight might be Jon Stewart calling my book “jaw dropping” and “phenomenal.” Massive thanks to everyone @TheDailyShow. Totally surreal to be there. Book is on sale now. youtu.be/NAj9zB4vaZc?si…
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    Patrick McGee
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    Jan 25, 2023
    Replying to @elonmusk
    For anyone not in on the joke, the lawyer for the investors suing Elon accidentally called him “Mr. Tweet” while grilling him this week.
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    Patrick McGee
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    Jul 8, 2018
    In Germany, even the birds meet the stereotype.
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    Patrick McGee
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    Oct 22, 2021
    An *enormous thread* on alleged @Google @facebook collusion based on the just-released *unredacted* complaint from the Texas AG. First filed December. Anything PURPLE is newly unredacted. Yellow/Orange is just normal highlights. 1/?
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    Patrick McGee
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    Oct 17, 2021
    Chart of the Day: @Apple’s advertising business has more than tripled its market share in the six months after it introduced privacy changes to iPhones that obstructed rivals, including @facebook and @Google, from targeting ads at consumers. *A Thread*
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    Patrick McGee
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    Oct 28, 2021
    Replying to @PatrickMcGee_
    For the 1st year, Apple is now earning $1bn+ a day in revenue. Full year revenue was $365.8bn, up 33% -- its fastest year of growth since 2012. Net income for the year: $94.7bn.
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    Patrick McGee
    @PatrickMcGee_
    Jul 25, 2018
    Replying to @hughhewitt and @POTUS
    Fairly unlikely any journalist had a conversation with Cohen about setting up dodgy real estate deals or paying off a mistress.
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    Patrick McGee
    @PatrickMcGee_
    Oct 31, 2021
    *New*: @Apple’s privacy settings caused an estimated $9.85bn of revenues to evaporate in the second half of this year at @Snap, @Facebook, @Twitter and @YouTube, as their advertising businesses were shaken by the new rules Average impact on revenue: -12% *Thread*
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    Patrick McGee
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    Jan 25, 2023
    Replying to @PatrickMcGee_ and @elonmusk
    This tweet is getting more likes than articles I spend 2 months writing… sigh. Do me a favour, read this: How Apple tied its fortunes to China enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/b440ea4…
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    Patrick McGee
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    Dec 28, 2022
    “Elon Musk's electric car company is days away from closing out its worst month, quarter and year on record and has moved past Meta to become the worst-performing stock in 2022 among the most valuable tech companies” @CNBC on @Tesla
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    Patrick McGee
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    Apr 8, 2021
    *Thread* Overnight both @Apple and @EpicGames released hundreds of pages of new documents, containing lots of colour based on discovery and recent depositions. I stayed up reading so you don't have to. Here's what I learnt (couple *bombshells* in here)
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    Patrick McGee
    @PatrickMcGee_
    Oct 22, 2021
    Replying to @PatrickMcGee_
    Google also owns the largest buy-side and sell-side brokers. "It is pitcher, batter, and umpire, all at the same time," says complaint. Senior GOOG employee: “[t]he analogy would be if Goldman or Citibank owned the NYSE.” More to the point -- if NYSE was the only stock exchange
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    Patrick McGee
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    Jan 26, 2023
    Replying to @PatrickMcGee_ and @elonmusk
    I’m sorry there’s no recording of this — it was prohibited — but basically Musk replied “Mr. Tweet?” The whole courtroom laughed. And then Musk said: “actually pretty accurate” Going by memory here, not for the history books
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    Patrick McGee
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    Jan 7, 2022
    Some readers are demanding an edit to my claim that Apple’s market value has grown $700m a day in Tim Cook’s 10.3 years as CEO. They are right to be stunned. This statistic is crazy. It’s also true.
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