It may be worth considering that Apple’s first take on the Xerox ideas was the Lisa, not exactly a big sales success. It took two rounds of refining the PARC id

It may be worth considering that Apple’s first take on the Xerox ideas was the Lisa, not exactly a big sales success. It took two rounds of refining the PARC ideas (Lisa, then Mac) to come to a somewhat-viable product. The Mac was still very expensive and didn’t sell that well for years. Xerox could have tried to productize the Star for the mass market but it doesn’t seem like a wild claim to say they would have failed and we’d still have waited for the Amiga.