Commodore's management sucked, but it doesn't matter. The mid-90s made it pretty much impossible for anything that wasn't a commodity PC clone to survive. Apple

Commodore's management sucked, but it doesn't matter. The mid-90s made it pretty much impossible for anything that wasn't a commodity PC clone to survive. Apple only barely made it, and really only rescued themselves by making brightly coloured plastic wrappings around what was basically a typical commodity PC but with a different CPU/OS (PowerPC with IDE drives and PCI bus). The 90s was the era of Dell JIT delivery and grey-box clones. The margins fell out of the whole market. There was no room for the likes of an Atari or Commodore. Apple only turned things around for themselves in the next millennium by becoming a luxury brand maker of consumer appliances, and "computers" as we know them have become a much smaller market than handheld devices. Maybe the "Amiga" brand could have continued as a high end graphics card line for PCs. (But it's not like there was any special sauce left in Commodore eng talent that could have made anything competitive). But Commodore as a maker of home computers or workstations? Nothing could have saved them.