Apple will end up owning Google or Microsoft. In a real crash, the others may not be worth buying.
This another one of those times where Apple will need to roll up its sleeves again and take another component (memory) in-house there is no getting around it.
True, but there's never been a multi-trillion dollar default in tech before. If that happens, all sorts of unimaginable things will happen. Maybe Apple won't want to buy a bankrupt giga-corp, but maybe the govt will make / ask them to do so like Chase took over Wamu and Bear Stearns.