I know you're a big Apple fan. I can see why a lot of people would choose to be Apple fans these days, but if you want my opinion... the Amiga was better than the Apple Mac. It should have been our platform competing with and beating Microsoft. But yours had good leadership, investment in development and excellent marketing. Ours had poor leadership, minimal investment and crap marketing.
Neverthless, Apple never managed to 'beat' Microsoft in the computer market. Apple did its best in the media one, and created a proprietary - and for this reason not destined to outperform others' revenues - platform for mobile phones, looking forward to the tablet market they actually created (and others will just follow, at least for now).
Once said so, I'd also stop blaming Commodore only for the Amiga long-term flop. Commodore made a lot of mistakes, but at those times WE (the Amiga users community) didn't see at them like 'mistakes', but as strong points for our platform. We liked the ways our computers were complete systems without spending money for costy expansion boards (we had stereo audio, integrated hi.res graphics...), but we discovered too late that our custom chips were enough good for 2D games, while PC users just needed to buy a 3D card to play better looking games and access functions our ECS and AGAs just couldn't even dream about.
We liked the long life of our systems, which just didn't get obsolete so fast. We discovered afterwards that keeping the platform uncahnged for years just made Commodore revenues not enough to sustain the platform. And don't try to fool ourserlves: we were all happy our A500 and A1200 with few expansions were enough for everything.
We started to suspect something a little late, when we asked Commodore for a CD-ROM to add to our A1200s, and they answered with the CD32. Everything that Commodore did after the year 1990 was always late, but we continued to happily sing that "Only Amiga makes it possible" like the orchestra still kept playing while the Titanic was sinking. And that's something we should all be aware of, and don't forget.
Unluckily, there are people that never learn from their mistakes.