The world wouldn't go down without Google. They clearly have an advantage in many areas, but there are plenty of options for business app hosting, email, and ev

The world wouldn't go down without Google. They clearly have an advantage in many areas, but there are plenty of options for business app hosting, email, and even search that are roughly equivalent to "without an iPhone I'd just use Android". If you didn't have Google, you'd still have Apple's services, and you'd just use Office365 and Bing or Fastmail or, hell, Zoho. Do you want to? Maybe not. Could you? Sure you could. The world would continue spinning. The world won't go down without AWS and Azure. There are any number of hosting services that can provide similar services, even if it would require relearning, and in a worst case, people would just go back to racking servers and hiring bare-metal admins. A totally functional cloud Internet could certainly exist with Linode and Akamai, with a little Hetzner in the mix. No businesses would go under without Meta. The world would be a better place without Meta. Like, what's the worst case scenario here? People can't log into Facebook, or use their Oculus? Oh no! What are we going to do?! There would probably be some serious weirdness if Microsoft went under. Likely more so than Apple. But, they're at a 2.5T market cap. Perhaps they're just undervalued - it's just not cool to defend Microsoft - rather than this being a situation with Apple being overvalued.