The life-and-death feud between Steve Jobs and these six people

A new biography of Steve Jobs, released Tuesday, paints a more complex picture of the man. While it corrects some of the image of Jobs as a tyrant, it also doesn't sugarcoat the personal grudges that Jobs held until his death. Here are six grudges that Jobs held onto until the end of his life:

There are six people who did not forgive "Boss Qiao" until his death

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Steve Jobs

1. Neil Young:

The rock singer-songwriter had criticized the sound quality of music downloaded from iTunes. Jobs was furious about Young's public comments. Later, Neil Young tried to smooth things over by giving Jobs some vinyl records as a gift. But Jobs responded by saying, "Screw the records. Keep them."

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Neil Young (Photo from Baidu)

2. Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney:

After negotiating with Eisner over some digital rights, things got ugly. According to Steve Jobs' biography: "Even though Steve had gotten what he wanted from Disney, Eisner was still a curse word for Jobs."

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Disney CEO Michael Eisner (Photo from Baidu)

3. Jean-Louis Gassé, former Apple executive:

Jobs once asked Apple CEO John Sculley to kick Jean-Louis Gassé out of the company in 1985, and a quarter century later, Jobs still growls when he sees the French name mentioned.

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Jean-Louis Gassée, former Apple executive (Photo from Baidu)

4. John Warnock, co-founder of Adobe:

Adobe was originally a supporter of Apple. However, Warnock later began to favor Microsoft's Windows system. This irritated Jobs. We all know the subsequent story. Jobs refused to add Adobe's Flash to the iPhone and iPad. Jobs also publicly questioned Adobe's software quality and lack of innovation.

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Adobe co-founder John Warnock (Photo from Baidu)

5. Jon Rubinstein, former Apple executive:

Rubinstein was once a highly regarded talent at Apple and made great contributions in the development of the iPod player. However, his relationship with Jobs later changed subtly. Rubinstein felt that he no longer belonged to Jobs' "small circle" and subsequently retired from Apple.

A year later, Rubinstein became CEO of Palm, a company that developed mobile devices and operating systems and had become a competitor to Apple. Jobs gave him an angry phone call for Rubinstein's move, and the two never spoke again.

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Jon Rubinstein (Photo from Baidu)

6. Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google:

Google and Apple were once allies. Schmidt, who had long served as Google's chief executive, was once a director of Apple. In addition, when Apple released its first smartphone, Schmidt also publicly supported it.

However, in November 2007, Google released the open-source and free mobile operating system Android, and the relationship between Apple and Google took a sharp turn for the worse. In Jobs' view, Google and Android copied the operating system of Apple phones, and Jobs was furious at the betrayal of Google's "ally". Subsequently, Jobs and Apple launched a patent lawsuit war against Android phone manufacturers around the world, and the patent lawsuit has continued to this day.

Jobs once said: "If necessary, I will use my life force and the $40 billion Apple has in the bank to correct this mistake. I will destroy Android because it is a stolen product. I am willing to go to thermonuclear war over this."

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Eric Schmidt (Photo from Baidu)