Actually, Apple's onerous/expensive licensing requirements on Firewire are probably what allowed USB to beat it. "Thunderbolt"/Displayport: yes, after decades

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