In fairness to the people who fired him, fanboy-ism has no place in the dispassionate decision making process of a professional. You have to have people around who are making decisions based on realities and not mantras or you're going to lose money.

If he wants a job where fanboy-ism can be helpful in climbing the ladder, he should try politics or something like that. Where all the money on the line belongs to other people. So no one really works to protect any of it.