I just recently bumped to John Carmacks stories about Steve Jobs, among which he convinces him to adopt OpenGL[1] (HN commentary [2]). Thought this might be an appropriate historic reference here as OpenGL now appears to be on it's way out on MacOS.
I too thought about this as Carmack mentioned that he believes it was one of his most important achievements that Apple adopted OpenGL back in the day.
[1] https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=214641282559... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17066846