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Because it's the top American company. US protects Apple and allies can't work against that. Now that US and EU relationship is deteriorating we'll see loads of lawsuits against Apple pop up in Europe.
How do you define 'top company'?
Probably market cap
And cultural impact. Americans are super patriotic about Apple and don't even notice it.
Eh, they're perceived as more "lefty" than most of the stereotypically "patriotic" corporations of the US.
There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a "crunchy granola" reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other "woke" people and living in California, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call "woke" without blinking an eye.
I think it's all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply -- or at least claim to care deeply -- about eroding democratic norms, and the rolling back of people's rights and that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.