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Events that are just part of our generally-interesting day to day tech landscape will probably be analyzed for decades by future historians.
What is trefis?

I can't figure out where they came up with the $391B market cap number, much less why they came up with that estimate?

It's certainly not based on the current stock value.

This link has their methodology and price estimate.

www.trefis.com/company#/AAPL

looks like a sell-side research house

We're extrapolating market capitalization into the future within a model. If we applied a similar model for the rest of the top 25 corporations by market cap on the S&P 500, we probably find that the iphone won't be worth more than all but 8 companies. This is given the model is accurate, and the pricing method is accurate of the iphone is accurate.