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| Company | Fork date | The fork | Options | Choice | Stated rationale | What happened | Judgment analyst | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabet (Google) Read the story → verified | 2005-07-11 | Whether Google should acquire Android Inc. to secure access to the mobile computing layer |
| Acquire Android | Fear of being locked out of mobile by Microsoft and Symbian, not foresight about smartphones | 5 years · 2010 internal assessment of the deal: Google's corporate development chief called Android the company's 'best deal ever' | reversibility low verdict held | Android Authority (2023-05); DPReview (citing PC World) (2013-04); Wikipedia / Android (operating system) (2026) |
| Apple Read the story → verified | 2020-06-22 | Keep buying Intel processors for the Mac, or design the Mac's chips in-house |
| Build your own: transition the Mac to Apple silicon | Control over the most consequential component, rather than accepting a supplier's schedule and priorities | 3 years · 2023-06-05 transition completion: The transition completed at WWDC 2023 when Apple silicon reached the Mac Pro | reversibility low verdict held | Apple Newsroom (2020-06); Apple Newsroom (2005-06); AnandTech (via 9to5Mac) (2020-11); Apple Newsroom (2023-06) |
| Boeing Read the story → verified | 2001-03-21 | Whether to move headquarters away from the engineers who build planes |
| Move HQ to Chicago | A separate corporate headquarters would let leadership judge each unit dispassionately, at a distance from the commercial-airplane operations | 5 years · 2022 headquarters location: Boeing relocated its headquarters again from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia, further from the factory | reversibility low verdict held | Crain's Chicago Business / Illinois Answers / The Center Square (2001); Contemporaneous reporting (compiled) (2001); U.S. House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure (2020-09); The Center Square / Reuters (2022) |
| Google-Android Read the story → verified | 2007-11 | Sell/license Android or give it away free and open-source |
| Give it away free | Google wanted to protect its search business by keeping its services at the default center of mobile, not to be in the OS business | Latest · 2008 first shipping device: Android 1.0 shipped on the T-Mobile G1, the HTC Dream, in 2008 | reversibility low verdict held | Wikipedia / Alphabet M&A list (citing SEC filings) (2025); Android Authority (2023-05) |
| Hugging Face Read the story → verified | 2019 | Keep building the consumer chatbot, or retire it and make the open-source library the company |
| Become the platform: the chatbot was retired and the free library became the company | The free library was a position, not a tool: every team pulling a model through it stood on Hugging Face's ground, and a neutral platform earns the trust a rival cannot | 5 years · 2023-08 financing and valuation: In August 2023 Hugging Face raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation, in a round that included Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and IBM | reversibility low verdict held | Contrary Research (2023); Wikipedia (2026-07); TechCrunch (2023-08) |
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