I read the Commodore book as well and I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who cares about the rise and fall of the C64 and the Amiga.
In any reality (alternate or not), Apple wouldn't buy today's Amiga, but I believe the question is what would have happened if Apple bought Amiga Inc. back in 1984.
I think they would have thrown away the very ugly Amiga 1.0 Workbench and quickly integrated the custom Amiga chips into the Mac. The Mac would have multitasking and color two or three years earlier.
Apple would have trebled the price of the high end Amiga, selling it as a professional device, something like a Lisa 2 or a Next Cube prequel. They would have marketed the hell out of their machine as God's gift to mankind. It's unclear to me whether Newtek's Video Toaster would have been developed for the Apple/Amiga hybrid. Apple's closed architecture may have scared away third party hardware developers like Newtek.
And all of us who hated the PC, but saw through Apple's b.s. would have probably opted for the Atari ST or the Commodore 128. :-)
