Scifi Alternate Future: What If Apple bought Amiga Inc.

[B00tDisk]

Psy wrote:
B00tDisk wrote:

So the best and brightest future for the Amiga = game console.  

Except for Nintendo all of those companies had home computers, even Sega that had the SC-3000, of course like I said Sega would have a problem with not understanding the custom chips as Sega was all about distributed computing with programmable chips at the time.

NEC also had a home computer that the Amiga could have replaced.

...in Japan.  Again, there was never, ever a world-beater home computer produced in Japan.

B00tDisk wrote:

No Japanese company has ever broken through in the west with any computer offering, and the X68000 was holding down the 'weird alternative 3rd market' just fine without the Amiga in Japan.

They could have, many had far more capital then Commodore.

The X68000 was launched after the Amiga, so if Sharp bought the Amiga the x68000 would never have seen the light of day.
 

and the Amiga would now be as obscure as the X68000.  If not moreso.

[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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[Psy]

B00tDisk wrote:
...in Japan.  Again, there was never, ever a world-beater home computer produced in Japan.

B00tDisk wrote:

and the Amiga would now be as obscure as the X68000.  If not moreso.

Yet they had the capital, so they could have pushed the Amiga better then Commodore as they had far more resources.  

[persia]

Amiga never had a chance, they started out pushing the state of the art and then just sat there waiting for the others to catch up.  It makes no sense.  They had such a long lead, Macs didn't pass them until OS X.  Windows really didn't until Windows 2000.  They had a decade lead and didn't go anywhere.

@amigakidd
The reason your local computer doesn't support alternative OSs is because there is no money in them.  They have a few 10's of users, what's the point in spending time and money to support them?  Computer stores are really apolitical they simply support what their customers want.