Apple Macbooks: A Global Process

Apple has made its way into the consumer technology market over the past few decades, and it now stands as a global entity, its products being sent across the world for production. Apple’s Macbook is one of its most popular products, and within this its components come from dozens of global locations before the computer is finally shipped to the consumer. Because the Macbook contains so many different parts along the supply chain, this Storymap will focus on the aluminum unibody which envelops the product. This element will travel several countries and be subject to varying social implications as it is mined, refined, and shaped into the form we know as the Macbook.