My personal take on it is &quot;boardroom meddling&quot;.<p>Rather than allow the share price to slump some and their CEO to put his long term play in to action, the board ousted him and brought in a short term sock puppet. And he was given one objective, goose the share price.<p>You will find this behavior up and down the tech world.<p>Take a look at HP for example. They went through 3 CEOs in nearly as many years. From that we have an aborted attempt at getting into the mobile business with WebOS as just one example.<p>Hell, consider what Dell said after buying back his namesake company. That now they were free to pursue less profitable long term goals.