Apple are a Terran company, as in they operate their entire chain over the entirety of Terra aka Earth.Of course it matters. Did you read what led up to what you quoted? The original author was implying apple had sold out and was being run by the Chinese and hence was a 'Chinese company.' I asked for proof of this.
Not sure what you are trying to suggest in calling Apple a 'Terran company.' Yes it has sales world wide. Yes it has to comply with regulations outside of the U.S., but no, it doesn't comply with any 'Terran' regulations. It complies with regulations of individual countries (and the EU). That makes it multi-national. That is relevant but doesn't make it 'Terran.' First and foremost, Apple IS a company headquartered in the US with products designed first for the US market. All the products are released in the US first. Not meaning to minimize the rest of the world, but you are wrong to say they are as much Chinese, Indian, European as American just because they sell products to those places.
A design might be sketched in Ireland. It will then be uploaded to iCloud where it will be iterated on by the R&D team in California. They might need to test pieces of tech without the press getting wind so fit the sensors to the roofs of cars instead of handsets. New chips are designed by the internal team. These are then sent away to have the designs made for laser manufacture. The only company in the whole world that manufactures these lasers is Trumpf, a danish/german entity.
The chip designs are then sent to TSMC in Taiwan, the only company on the planet that can manufacture nanometer-level chips. This is a global chokepoint. Semiconductor prices shot up in 2020 because TSMC closed down due to Covid and they stopped manufacture. Its also why the USA is very bullish in protecting Taiwan from chinese invasion: every US industry that uses advanced chipsets (pretty much all of them) would be vulnerable to disruption. Silicon Valley leans on Washington who then weaponise the supply chain. Nvidia for example have been banned from importing high-end GPU's into China to keep them a generation behind in AI development.
These chips are then shipped off to allies such as Qualcomm in China or India for assembly with the rest of the device. The screens are manufactured in Japan for example by Corning. The finished products are then shipped back to the USA and other countries for sale. Every part of Apple's supply chain is another point on the globe. Whilst they are not all owned by Apple, they are a neccessity in doing business across the planet.
The phone in your pocket is not like the Pizza you order from down the road; it is the result of a complex global web of supply chains, commodity movement and geopolitics.