So what? The world got more benefit from c64s and vic20s than all the iProducts together.

An Apple that made little more than the AppleII and ran it's course would have been a perfectly fine thing.

We would all be far richer for having 20 different companies in place of the Apple we got.

"The world got more benefit from c64s and vic20s"

I started coding in 1981 on an VC20, learned a lot from it, but wonder how did the world benefit more from vic20s?

As a happy smartphone user, I think the world did benefit a lot e.g. from the Newton (loved mine, dropped a Palm for it, sad it died, but it was too heavy).

Probably would have just been Microsoft