Scifi Alternate Future: What If Apple bought Amiga Inc.

[amigakidd]

After reading Brian Bagnall's book:
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
(Great Book BTW, cannot put it down after buying it last week at my local Borders). What If Apple bought the current Amiga Inc. and became interested in Amiga technology. Would they create a separate line of computers based on Amiga GUI, but not directly compatible with Mac OS X in terms of porting apps, but still compatible with filesystem of Mac OS X.

Right now, there are two dominant commercial platforms of Computing: PC Clones and Macintosh. It just came to me from reading On the Edge that in the past there seems to be always three major computing companies. Examples, Apple, Atari, Commodore. Then Microsoft came along with Win 95 to dominate, somehow they kind of replaced Commodore. PCs became popular in mid 90s and Macs became 2nd Popular in the mid 2000s. Talking in a scifi alternate future sense: If Apple buys Amiga Inc, do you think in 2010s the Amiga will be the 3rd most popular machine.
Let's forget Linux because it is everywhere and open-source. In 2000s, three major platforms exist: PC Windows, Mac OS X, and Variant forms of Unix/Linux.

Or will Apple buy Amiga and forget the technologies just like Escom and Gateway did? Or will they merge Workbench with the Apple TV? Perhaps multitask the iPod touch?
Amiga Games on iPod? Perhaps marry the Finder with Workbench Interface. Remember this thread is for your fantasy speculations "IF" Apple bought Amiga and what technologies will emerge in doing so. I kinda chose Apple because Apple somehow parallels Amiga in many ways, loyalty, but instead Apple was lucky in the 90s and they succeeded today.

[amigakidd]

It is sad that the computer industry only uses PCs, Macs and Linux Machines. The rest is ignored.

AmigaOS, Morph OS, SkyOS, MenuetOS, BEOS, and other alternative OSes have potential. Your local Best Buy (Insert Computer Store here) employee doesn't even know what these are. As long as it is made by Apple and Microsoft, they only care about that as long as it plays iPod. To this day, The Amiga OS still has the best looking GUI. I'm tired of this Aqua-esque GUI interfaces all over the place. Aqua is just overrated and has that iTunes feel and too American Idolish for my taste. I'm trying to say is that Computers now are for the casual users (the people who play Wii and have iPods) US Hardcore Amiga users are left in the dust.
16-Bit GUIs rule! I grew up in the 90s, so I appreciate the GUIs back then.

If Commodore lasted longer past April 29th 1994, they could have thrown Apple out or at least head to head with Bill Gates.


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