Actually, Apple&#x27;s onerous&#x2F;expensive licensing requirements on Firewire are probably what allowed USB to beat it.<p>&quot;Thunderbolt&quot;&#x2F;Displayport: yes, after decades of making laptops with proprietary adapters, they finally conceded that point. Intel deserves some thanks here too, I think.<p>Facetime: what lawsuit are you talking about? It&#x27;s still only interoperable with Apple&#x27;s software on Apple&#x27;s platforms. Proprietary.<p>Webkit, Darwin, and LLVM: these are all good things. Note that all of them have non-Apple (and also non-NeXT) origins.