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Steve Jobs Nominated for Time Magazine "Person of the Year"

Between this and Adobe getting spanked by Jobs and finally putting that lame horse for mobile to rest has made my day. :D

Rest Steve you knew what you where talking about.
 
Let's think of the alternatives:

bin Laden
Anwar Al-Awlaki
Someone/some group affiliated with the Egyptian revolution
(Please not the) Occupy Wherever fools
Edit to add: saw an abbreviated list with Elizabeth Warren - good shout, incredible woman, just really hasn't been able to make much headway

Hopefully Time goes with something positive and honors Jobs.
 
No conflict of interest here, with Isaacson having been an editor of Time.... :rolleyes:

I hope they go with someone associated with the Arab spring, not someone who upgraded the processor in two Itoys this year. (And since Jobs went on medical leave the beginning of the third week of January, what he did in the first two weeks of 2011 is questionable.)

Naming Jobs POY would be a cynical ploy to sell magazines to Apple fans. Regardless of what Jobs did over his career, it doesn't reach the bar for *2011* POY.
 
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AidenShaw said:
No conflict of interest here, with Isaacson having been an editor of Time.... :rolleyes:

I hope they go with someone associated with the Arab spring, not someone who upgraded the processor in two Itoys this year. (And since Jobs went on medical leave the beginning of the third week of January, what he did in 2011 is questionable.)

Naming Jobs POY would be a cynical ploy to sell magazines to Apple fans. Regardless of what Jobs did over his career, it doesn't reach the bar for *2011* POY.
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Exactly. I still stand by my Twitter case, but Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire, gave the original spark to the movement.
 
Mohamed Bouazizi is the OBVIOUS Choice

unlinked said:
I think Mohamed Bouazizi would be more appropriate. Granted I would be surprised if many people knew his name (certainly I had to look it up) but if you are only looking at this year he has been far more influential.
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I agree. Jobs probably should have been named years ago, but Mohamed Bouazizi is the person who has the most influence this year on the world, igniting the Arab spring which has toppled rulers in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.

We should not have parochial blinders on because this is a Apple-related forum.
 
Looking at the list of past "winners", they gave Peter Ueberroth the award in 1984 for producing the Olympics (!). I mean, come on! Talk about lame.

Steve Jobs sells copy, so no doubt he'll be the POTY. If they are going to start with posthumous awarding, it might as well be him.
 
Well Time magazine screw up on this one.
They are just awarding this too late. Steve should have been the "person of the year" for many years and they ignored it.

Too bad they had to see him die to realize his importance to our world. I am sure Steve would enjoy to get these news when he was alive.
 
unlinked said:
I think Mohamed Bouazizi would be more appropriate. Granted I would be surprised if many people knew his name (certainly I had to look it up) but if you are only looking at this year he has been far more influential.
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I have to say that much as I have benefited from the results of Steve Jobs's vision and leadership, the current Arab Spring may end up changing the world for a lot more people over the coming years.
 
AidenShaw said:
Naming Jobs POY would be a cynical ploy to sell magazines to Apple fans. Regardless of what Jobs did over his career, it doesn't reach the bar for *2011* POY.
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I agreed with you on this and like I said Time failed to recognized Jobs importance for many years.
He should have won "POTY" few years back.
 
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Time magazine recognizing multi-billionaire Steve Jobs over the poor Tunisian fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi (whose self-immolation sparked the Arab Spring which in turn helped to ignite the Occupy Movement) would NOT be news IMHO.

Acknowledging the catalyst that was one man who would otherwise be invisible to the world at large, whose symbolic suicide called people to action all over the world, demanding accountability and change from their leaders and governments; now THAT would be news (unless perhaps if Steve Jobs had bit a dog)!

And yes, this WAS sent from my iPhone because my Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and work-issued MacBook were not where I read this article from!

theFATangel =)
 
Uh, seeing as it is supposed to be the person who most influenced the year, I'm sorry, I don't think Steve Jobs really did much to influence 2011 honestly (well besides die.. I know that's morbid but that was his biggest impact on 2011 was the shock of his death).

And if we are going to go by who most influenced today's tech for this year (even though it is supposed to be this year), Dennis Ritchie would have been a better person (who helped develop Unix which is the underpinnings for OSX and iOS and many other things as well as the C language).

I mean, I love my Mac and I was very upset at Steve Jobs dieing, I just don't think it fits.
 
I don't think Steve Jobs would want the award. He was all about a being bigger person than the normal hysteria and doing the right thing because it was right. If he cared about this kind of thing he would have done more interviews and been more public. He wasn't and we don't even know what cause he's left his money too.
 
bradb667 said:
Apparently so. Everybody seems to miss this is "Person of the Year" and not some sort of lifetime achievement award.

I don't see how he did anything remarkable this year at all, other than step down from Apple and, well, die.

Brad.
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Agreed. He died. He was a genius, but dying isn't a reason to recognize a man...
 
I searched the web via Google. Two searches. One I hate Apple (About 115,000,000 results). The other I hate Microsoft (About 3,880,000 results). Apple has way more hate results than Microsoft. Now if people see Steve's picture on the cover of Time magazine I think that there won't be the lovely reception that we would accept about him. Secondly I think they should have contacted him before he died. To consider it now would be an act of kind mercy. He deserved to be informed while he was still alive.:apple:
 
inlovewithi said:
Just cause he died? I was listening to Howard Stern, he literarly thinks that Steve Jobs personally invented the mp3 player and the touch screen. The touch screen in my Nintendo DS and pocket PC both in 2004 were invented by Steve Jobs. That's the reality for so many.
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I think you'll find that the iPhone touch screen is capacitive.
The old-style touch-screen was a special film overlay which required pressure from a hard object, like a stylus.

If you wish to be critical of statements, back them up with facts.
 
He deserved it years ago. He doesn't deserve it this year since he was on sick leave most of the year. Time of the Year should go to people who did a lot of stuff on the year.
 
Too little too late.
Jobs work hard for it and craved that award, but was denied several years in a row regardless of his enormous contributions to make our world a better place.
 
For those who felt Steve deserved it years ago. Which years are you thinking?
 
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