Ultimately Commodore/Apple/Atari lost the PC market to Intel/MS by the mid 80s. Nintendo jumped on and held the gaming console world with easy to use/play game systems... while everyone who worked with computers bought IBM PC compatibles at home to match what they had at work. As a earlier posted noted - if Commodore would have stay focused and went after the nitch video/high end graphics market instead of stuff like c65 they might had a chance... but thats commodore... they bite their nose to spite their face. Apple stayed focused on Desktop publishing... but is the iPOD that saved them and with the web making desktop os less important, they can finally sell PCs... mainly laptops... I am using one to write this now (work buys them cause they last longer)
I think now is the time a new 64-bit Amiga OS on netbooks would have a real chance to bring the Amiga OS/brand back. Even Steve Ballmer at MS is in hot water cause linux is dominating the netbook os market and Intel says netbook processors (Atom) has saved their bottom line for 2 years and growing...
Oh well, my 2 cents worth... happy holidays to all!
PS... here is good article about ms missing a lot lately
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1566790/will-microsoft-rid-ballmer
