A new biography written about Steve Jobs reportedly shows the Apple co-founder in an unflattering light. According to The Daily Beast, friends like current Apple CEO Tim Cook and design guru Johnny Ive have praised the new biography, Becoming Steve Jobs. The new book delves deeper into the icon's famous anger, which Neil Young and Google were victims of at different points.
Young criticized the sound quality of songs on iTunes early on, calling the tracks "compromised." Jobs was unhappy that the singer would "pop off in public like that without coming to talk to us about his technical concerns first."
One of the authors ended up calling Jobs about some Young albums, to which Jobs replied, "F**k Neil Young, and f**k his records."
Interestingly enough, Young is now in the digital music service business with Pono. The music player boasts high-quality audio compared to the "inferior" and "compressed" MP3s. Pono received mixed reviews, though. Users were happy with the sound quality but did not like the fact that the service was a standalone music player that required re-purchasing albums from its own store. Prices were an issue as well.
The authors suggest that the anger many associated with Jobs came from him being spoiled as a child. His temper was not a result of learning that he was adopted.
"Brilliant, precocious, and meticulous, he had always gotten his way with his parents, and had brayed like an injured donkey when things didn't turn out as he planned," they wrote.
Jobs also was not a big fan of Google. He was angry about the company's phones, mainly feeling betrayed by former CEO Eric Schmidt after the introduction of Android because the chairman had been a friend to Jobs for years.
The Apple co-founder died in 2011 due to complications from cancer.
