Mehul Srivastava, Kathrin Hille and Marton Dunai

Sep 19, 2024 – 10.02am

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Gold Apollo is a nondescript, 40-person business in a shabby Taipei suburb, one of tens of thousands of Taiwanese companies that manufacture the ubiquitous, cheap electronics of daily life.

Gold Apollo was launched in 1995, when mobile phones had yet to supplant pagers. Its current bestsellers include the vibrating pucks that eateries hand out to customers to signal that their food is ready.

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