Competitors can't compete with them even with standard stuff. Good for them to move forward. It's funny how innovation becomes a "bad" thing when a company you don't like innovates "too much".
This is wrong and detrimental to the whole industry, including users.
Apple would have created a shitty internet if they were in charge at the time.
To be honest, Microsoft did pretty nasty things during their era, but I think that Apple would have been so much worse.
* Metal was launched two years before Vulkan
* Lightning was invented two years before USB-C