Former Apple CEO, John Sculley, has disputed the fact that he fired Apple founder, Steve Jobs, after the creation of the Macintosh, saying that Jobs was never actually fired.

Jobs openly spoke about his departure from Apple and how he used the time to set up NeXt and Pixar. However, speaking at his address at Stanford University, he said that he was unceremoniously fired and famously asked 'how can you be fired from the company you created?'

Sculley has since disputed the claims made by Jobs saying that he was never technically fired from Apple. Sculley was speaking at the Engage 2015 Conference in Prague and said that Jobs' departure came following the failed Macintosh Office program.

"It was after making the pitches that the Apple board asked Steve to step down from the Macintosh division for being too disruptive in the organisation."

"Steve was never fired. He took a sabbatical and was still chairman of the board. He was down, no one pushed him, but he was off the Mac, which was his deal – he never forgave me for that," Sculley said.

The late Apple founder, Steve Jobs, passed away in 2011 after losing his battle with pancreatic cancer.

The former Apple CEO went on to lament his ruined relationship with Jobs and expressed his regret for never re-building his friendship with Jobs.

"It was never repaired, which was such a shame – I look back and think what a mistake on my part. Corporate America was secular and there just wasn’t the passion you see today where there is such respect for founders. To remove a founder, even if he was never fired, was a mistake."

"I wish we had got together and renewed our friendship, but it didn’t happen," Sculley said.

Sculley was also speaking about his latest project Obi Mobiles, a new affordable Android-based smartphone that is being made for developing countries.