I get the feeling that Jean-Louis Gassée is still bitter about his company not having been bought by Apple back in 1996.
The largest threat in the long term for Apple is when NVidia is successful buying ARM
I don’t see why. Nvidia could keep new ARM CPUs away from Apple, but Apple has a perpetual license to the architecture, so Nvidia can’t forbid Apple from using the existing designs, from creating their own implementation of the ARM architecture, or from extending (possibly also from removing instructions) the instruction set to whatever they want.