We recently published 10 Stocks On Jim Cramer’s Mind As He Discussed A “Weird Number”. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the stocks Jim Cramer recently discussed.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), the world’s largest technology company, has seen little love from Wall Street in 2025. The firm’s shares have lost 13% year-to-date as investors remain skeptical about its relationship with the Trump administration, sales in China, and artificial intelligence initiatives. In his previous remarks about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Cramer has advised the firm to spend more to manufacture products in the US in order to curry favor with the Trump administration. Here’s what he said during this particular show:

“But I come and I say, when you look at the week, other than Apple, it may be strong.

Previously, Cramer discussed the key components of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)’s current investing hypothesis:

“After the close, Thursday, we have two more members of the Magnificent Seven when Apple and Amazon report. Now, both stocks have been going up steadily. They could be, well, look, it could be like Alphabet, which rallied consistently into the marvelous print, then kept going up. Apple, I’m not sure. While I say own it, don’t trade it, and I’m unwavering about that, I’m expecting an unexciting quarter and a slowdown in growth from services revenue stream. Not good.

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I’m also worried about whether they can still receive 20 billion from Google in exchange for making it the default search provider, something a judge seems eager to put an end to. There’s something to be said about commenting on the decision by a lower court that said Google’s monopolist, which could really hurt Apple as well as litigation related to Epic, a video game company that’s fighting Apple’s current policy where they take a 30% cut of any transaction done within an app you download from their App Store. Epic wants to bypass that. I don’t know if that seems right.”

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