The product found deserved success in Europe, where it was the #1 home computer for quite some time... If only the management at the American parent company hadn't been so clueless, they could have built on that.
Superior technology alone does not a successful product make. Plenty of inferior technologies have been wildly successful. Those are the lessons of the computer age.
Hype, marketing, advertising, business savvy, and anti-competitive practices are often far more important.