Oh PLEAHHSE, you should REALLY shut up...
...you've FAILED MISERABLY, you have wiped out ~1/3RD OF HP IN DAYS because you couldn't shut your stupid mouth, not to mention throwing out OVER A BILLION WHEN YOU SHUT PALM, the ONLY future-proof investment HP had in the now-booming mobile business.
Apotheker is the archetype of these classic, clueless sales/MBA-types who are infesting every healthy organization in recent years, only to drive them into the ground...
...remember Meg Whitman and her last years at eBay? http://www.alternet.org/story/148629/how_meg_whitman_failed_her_way_to_the_top_at_ebay,_collecting_billions_while_nearly_destroying_the_company
...but that being said HP's BOARD IS AT FAULT FOR YEARS NOW and we're talking about criminal negligence: a bunch of utterly clueless, yet arrogant, stupid lawyers with discontent against everybody who's technically proficient, period. Remember how they exploited a completely private love/harassment affair between some reality "actress" and Mark Hurd, HP's last CEO, even admitting it did not violate any HP rule? THEY HAVE PUSHED OUT THE GUY who not only had a vision and some clue about the technical side of things (he was another MBA but spent decades at NCR) but also brought back HP from the edge of the cliff after the now-infamous DISASTROUS tenure of another worthless, arrogant-clueless glorified sales woman as CEO (yes, I'm talking about "Lady" "Jet-setting" Fiorina.) Hurd had a clue, had a vision and knew how to make it work - he had to go, board cannot tolerate anyone who's not in their pocket.
Did I mention who was these lawyers' paid adviser at the time? She is the woman famously wasting BILLIONS on Skype, only to sell it back after she couldn't make anything of it... yes, she was Meg Whitman, another utterly worthless MBA monkey - now the current CEO of HP. Full circle, that is.