I work in film distribution, and we have similar rules as well for unreleased movies. The important thing is that this is really nothing personal - for all inte

I work in film distribution, and we have similar rules as well for unreleased movies. The important thing is that this is really nothing personal - for all intents and purposes the firing is a clear and automatic decision by a HR robot. The question is, who on the iPhone team should have stood up and advocated having him stay? Presumably all the other people on the team have families as well, and they all went to great lengths to make sure this didn’t happen with their pieces. If this happened to someone on my team I would wish them well and make introductions as much as possible, but it would be very unfair to the rest of the team to try to hold on to them.