I guess it's a matter of perspective. One could also say that it was an employee retention disaster. Apple could not keep their key engineers happy even after

I guess it's a matter of perspective. One could also say that it was an employee retention disaster. Apple could not keep their key engineers happy even after offering millions to stay. After realizing the full extent of the engineers' value after the fact, Apple had to buy a company that had no viable product just to get the engineers back.