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| Company | Fork date | The fork | Options | Choice | Stated rationale | What happened | Judgment analyst | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Read the story → verified | 2007-11-19 | How to price the Kindle hardware relative to the bookstore |
| Premium device price | Amazon aimed to make money on content used, not on the device bought, treating the hardware as break-even | 5 years · 2025 share of e-readers sold globally: about 70% of e-readers sold globally carry the Kindle name | reversibility medium verdict held | Amazon.com Press Center (2007-11); The Bookseller (2012-10); EE Times / IHS iSuppli Teardown Analysis Service (2011-11); Good e-Reader (2025-01) |
| Amazon Read the story → verified | 2014 | Whether to sell Echo hardware below cost to drive voice-commerce adoption |
| Sell hardware below cost | Give people a microphone in the kitchen and they'll shop by voice, making money when people use devices not when they buy them | 5 years · 2022-11 layoffs: roughly 10,000 jobs cut with devices among hardest hit | reversibility low verdict partial | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Amazon.com, Inc. (2013-04); Strata-gee / Nikkei teardown analysis (2022-08); U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Amazon.com, Inc. (2017); Tom's Guide (2024-07); Yahoo Finance / AP (2024-08) |
| Charles Schwab Read the story → verified | 2019-10-01 | Whether to eliminate online trading commissions to weaken a commission-dependent rival |
| Cut commissions to zero | Commissions were a small share of Schwab's revenue but a large share of its rival's, so the cut inflicted asymmetric damage while gathering assets | Latest · 2019-11-24 Acquisition of rival: Schwab signed an agreement to acquire TD Ameritrade for roughly $26 billion in stock | reversibility low verdict held | Charles Schwab Corporation (pressroom.aboutschwab.com) (2019-10); CNBC (2019-10); NPR (2019-10); CNBC (2019-11); U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (2020); U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (2020-10) |
| Epic Games Read the story → verified | 2020-08-13 | Whether to deliberately trigger Fortnite's removal from iOS to challenge Apple's 30% commission through litigation |
| Provoke removal and sue | Epic sacrificed its smallest revenue platform to attack the principle of the 30% platform commission charged everywhere | 5 years · 2026-05 Supreme Court action: Justice Kagan declined to pause the contempt order while Apple appealed | reversibility low verdict partial | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2021-09); PC Gamer (2020-08); MobileSyrup / 9to5Mac (reporting on trial exhibits) (2021-04); Lexology (Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz) (2025-05); Courthouse News Service (reporting on Ninth Circuit ruling) (2025-12); SCOTUSblog (2026-05) |
| Epic Games Read the story → verified | 2018-12 | Whether to buy users with free games and a low take rate to build a store against Steam |
| Subsidize with free games | Build scale now and monetize later by luring users with cheap economics and free games into paid transactions | 5 years · 2023-11 Store profitability: store still not profitable, growth remained the primary goal | reversibility low verdict held | Wikipedia / Epic Games Store article (citing primary Epic announcements) (2024); Game Developer (via Tim Sweeney Twitter/X statements, December 2018) (2018-12); Game Developer / Epic Games 2024 Year in Review (primary underlying source) (2025); Windows Central / Epic Games 2024 Year in Review (primary underlying data) (2026-01); Epic Games Inc. v. Google LLC, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Case No. 3:20-cv-05671-JD — trial testimony reported by The Verge and Kotaku (2023-11) |
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