Sherlocking is not unique to Apple. It’s been known for years that if you are filling in a platforms gaps and your product should be part of the platform, it soon will be.

This has been the case since software vendors had plug ins to print landscape on Lotus 123.

In the case of Apple, Connectix claim to fame was utilities like SoeedDoubler (a better 68K emulator for PPC Macs), Ram Doubler (a better memory management utility for Macs that wasn’t a scam like the Windows utilities) and Copy Doubler.

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nxobject a day ago | parent [-]

Pre-Jobs Apple did license a few Extensions from Connectix... Jobs-era Apple just didn't care, I guess.

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JustExAWS a day ago | parent [-]

I was around during that time. Around System 7.5 or System 8, they did license a lot of third party utilities. But as far as I know, Connectix was never one of them.

Apple built their own Gen 2 68K emulator. But Speed Doubler was still faster.

In the modern era, Apple did acquire Dark Sky for better weather APIs and an apps and the company behind Automator.

	▲	nxobject 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're right – I apologize. (I thought MODE32 was licensed and bundled with early 68030 Macs, but upon double-checking it was pure Apple.)