Worth noting they also got Opus standardized through the IETF[1] and, furthermore, it's mandatory to implement in the WebRTC spec[2]. So Opus is not only technically superior to other audio codecs, it's also better situated politically than Xiph.org's past efforts (eg. Vorbis, which sounds great but never really achieved relevance).

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716

[2] http://jmspeex.livejournal.com/11042.html