Apple Inc. (AAPL): I'm Going To Keep Defending It, Says Jim Cramer

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the Jim Cramer Says US Has To Give Some Chips To China & Discusses These 10 Stocks.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been one of Cramer’s top stocks this year. Despite the fact that the firm’s shares have struggled in the first half of 2025 due to slow momentum on AI and US trade tensions with China, Cramer has maintained that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the greatest companies in the world. In his latest comments, the CNBC host remarked on acquisitions, the firm’s deal with Google, and its trade war woes:

“Look, their policy, and I remember when suggested Tim Cook to buy Netflix, um, I’ve suggested to buy a lot of things. . .I thought that Apple had a lot of good things [at WWDC] I don’t think that people realize that Apple has such an aversion to buying companies, and a great proclivity to say, look, you want our billion, 1.3 billion? We’ll take you as our sole-source. Now the problem is that Google one of the things that Google’s going to be in trouble for . . . .Google wrote a check, for 20 billion to Apple in 2022. And this is what the government hates that they did that. So I would pivot if I were Apple instead of saying to Perplexity, you know what, I think you should pay us, I think they should say, we pay you. Now that’s not what you ever want to hear, right.

“[On if he’s going to keep defending Apple] You bet I am. Because if I were told, to move out of China and so I moved to India and then it turned out that was the wrong country? Oh, sorry. If I gave 500 billion dollars four years to build things here, well that didn’t protect me? Sorry. Are you kidding me? . . Maybe there’s a lot on his mind. . .”

In his previous comments, Cramer discusses Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s trade war woes in detail:

“Finally, let’s understand something. Apple is not a company that stands still… Can we stipulate that in the last year, it’s reasonable to believe that Tim Cook, the CEO, might have been a little distracted? Here’s a man… who’s been trying to do everything he’s supposed to do in order to meet the demands of the president of the United States. The president wanted investment in the U.S. What does he do? He announces that Apple’s going to spend $500 billion in the US over four years…

President then made it clear he didn’t want Apple to make as much product as it did in China. So unbelievably and in almost no time… Cook moved a huge amount of iPhone production to India. Then Trump says that India’s not the right place. The phones have to be made here. I mean, come on… But the bottom line: As long as nobody switches to Android, call me sanguine about Apple. Not more than that, not certainly less than that. Sanguine doesn’t mean buy, but it sure doesn’t mean sell…”

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