In most alternate universes, the Amiga would never could have been a competitor to the PC or even the Mac. The secret to the PC's success was not just the clon

In most alternate universes, the Amiga would never could have been a competitor to the PC or even the Mac. The secret to the PC's success was not just the clone market, but the open architecture that permitted endless permutations on interexchangable components: motherboards, graphics cards, hard drives, etc. were all pluggable. Amiga's custom chipset and architecture gave it a huge edge (mostly in multimedia), but the tight coupling made it an evolutionary dead end. Even if they licensed the OS and opened the architecture to clones, the hardware dependency wouldn't have been able to follow suit.