If Apple made the move to "Wintel/clones" machines many years ago (back when 808x, 286, 386 processors), they might have the ruling operating system today.

No, because the whole point of the "clones" was that they ran MS-DOS on top of an IBM PC compatible BIOS, and hence could run IBM software. There were plenty of "better" operating systems for clones, such as Xenix, OS/2 and, later NeXTStep (the ancestor of today's Mac OS X). They failed - IBM Compatibility was the USP of clones.

Also, the 68k and later PPC processors were, at the time, better than the Intel offerings. When that was no longer true, Apple did switch to x86.

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