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.

You're right – I apologize. (I thought MODE32 was licensed and bundled with early 68030 Macs, but upon double-checking it was pure Apple.)