Well, Apple would have gone out of business one way or another, and we'd still be at the mercy of carrier-locked "featurephones". No iPod, either.

And this isn't about BeOS, really; the lack of technical merit was a problem, but Mac OS X didn't ship in usable form for six years, and, you know, in that time they certainly could have ported QuickDraw GX and print drivers, and ported over Unicode support from the Taligent sources. But there's no timeline in which Gil Amelio manages to fully rescue Apple. He and the people he brought in didn't understand the problems.

Is that a better world? Quite possibly, because social media wouldn't have been able to destroy the world quite so effectively. (And I prefer MiniDisc to the original iPod; still have a couple of MiniDisc players and some blank discs.) But probably not better for computing.