well i will posit a few additional thoughts on this:
1. Tramiel still joins atari and brings his commodore design staff with him.
2. a failing Hi-toro is finally purchased by Atari instead of Commodore.
3. Ideas from the ST series such as on board midi are merged with the Lorraine to produce a new range of computers "Amiga ST"(for lack of creative ideas) using Miners custom chip sets and the new multi-tasking Amiga OS.
3. Miner gets his wish and the Machine is given more memory out of the box (1 meg to start)
With toys such as dig tec genlocks and cubase and later the video toaster.. think the machine would have a better time hanging on? driving innovation?
Both machines WERE doing Multi-Media before the term existed.. The Amiga the leader in Video and the ST-Falcon's were used widely in audio production.
Just seems that if the two platforms were merged into 1 solid platform that they could have given more to forcing the folks at Apple and Microsoft to improve their operating systems faster then they did as well as forcing hardware vendors to more rapidly work on ways to solve the issues in the PC with out throwing simple raw horse power at the problem, but by using more offloaded "custom chip sets" to handle audio and video freeing the CPU to do what it does best.
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/jayminerinterview.html
Link for additional reading
