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

divinox said:
There, fixed your post.
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All Mr. Gates did was purchase a version of CP/M, then sell it to IBM. There was no innovation other than retaining the right to sell it to other manufacturers. If you want to give anyone credit, it would be IBM for their mass marketing of the system.
 
RalfTheDog said:
All Mr. Gates did was purchase a version of CP/M, then sell it to IBM. There was no innovation other than retaining the right to sell it to other manufacturers. If you want to give anyone credit, it would be IBM for their mass marketing of the system.
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Gates, not Jobs, is the man who placed a computer in every mans home. Deal with it.
 
What's he nominated for? Being an a**? I read his biography. He was not a nice man.
 
divinox said:
Gates, not Jobs, is the man who placed a computer in every mans home. Deal with it.
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Deal with it, Gates contributed nothing to the success of the IBM personal computer. He just purchased an OS from a third party, then sold it to IBM. IBM put a great deal of money into marketing those personal computers. Before the IBM systems, there were lots of small business and home computers on the market. Companies were mostly using CP/M based systems while home users were running Apple II or TRS-80.

I don't think the IBM systems increased the total number of systems sold, they just cannibalized the market from other vendors.
 
sishaw said:
Hitler and Stalin won in 1938 and 1939, respectively. Stalin won again in 1942. Khrushchev won in 1957. Khomeini won in 1979.
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Does "Godwin's law" apply to your post? :D

The Canadian Press uses the term "Newsmaker of the Year", so it makes it un-ambiguous as "Person of the Year" kind of implies good things for most people.
 
Some of the delusional comments in this thread make me embarrassed to be a fan of Apple and their products. I think even Steve Jobs would be annoyed with some of them.

If people actually believe that Steve Jobs had the greatest impact on the world as a whole this year, then they are either ignorant of current events or so far gone in bias and denial that nothing they say can be taken seriously.

If Steve Jobs is the Person of the Year, then Time magazine has become even more of a farce than it already was. I didn't agree with Zuckerberg getting it last year, but naming Steve Jobs this year isn't going to remedy it. If anything it will likely make it worse.
 
ProVideo said:
Some of the delusional comments in this thread make me embarrassed to be a fan of Apple and their products. I think even Steve Jobs would be annoyed with some of them.

If people actually believe that Steve Jobs had the greatest impact on the world as a whole this year, then they are either ignorant of current events or so far gone in bias and denial that nothing they say can be taken seriously.

If Steve Jobs is the Person of the Year, then Time magazine has become even more of a farce than it already was. I didn't agree with Zuckerberg getting it last year, but naming Steve Jobs this year isn't going to remedy it. If anything it will likely make it worse.
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I think most of the people who want to see him win, don't view it as being about 2011, but more as a lifetime achievement award dating back to what he and the Waz did in the 1970's.
 
Just because he died?


The guy made a bunch of popular music players and phones. He didn't exactly change the world.
 
jeman said:
The year the iPad was released which many have tried unsuccessfully to copy.
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I would say, the year he got the idea of selling pre-built computers instead of selling a set of plans, then asking the purchaser to go out and try to find the parts. The year he got the idea, computers would be a good thing to have in a classroom would also be high on the list.
 
pc repair said:
As far as I can tell, Time's Person of the Year is someone who made the most of that impact of that particular year. I agree, Steve Jobs made amazing contributions over the past 20 or 30 years. But I'm questioning 'What if he didn't die this year, would you have given the award to him?' As far as this year is concerned, I'm thinking someone else.
www.geekchoice.com
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I agree. I think the person of the year should be related to the protest movements. I think Jobs should get some kind of lifetime achievement note in the issue.

Edited to say, If you own geekchoice you might want to move your link into your signature.
 
pc repair said:
As far as this year is concerned, I'm thinking someone else.
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I just finished reading Steve's autobiography. An epic reminder of what he accomplished much of it based on other people but led by him. We have the book ... and all the technology available ... I don't see person of the year for 2011.

Unless one argues somehow that Apples valuation exceeding Exon ( not sure if that is still true ) at times this year makes it that significant this year.

I have to think person of the year goes to the 99 percenters.
 
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Did Exxon ever became Time POTY when it's the #1 company? What makes Apple different from them and for Apple to deserve such recognition when Exxon has held the #1 company for far longer number of years.

The "world" is not only composed of first world countries. Apple is of less presence and impact in poorer countries for its higher price of admission. Jobs has less impact to general population as you might have thought outside your materialistic world...
 
RalfTheDog said:
I think most of the people who want to see him win, don't view it as being about 2011, but more as a lifetime achievement award dating back to what he and the [Woz] did in the 1970's.
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"Person of the Year".

Do you see the problem with your thought? :D:apple:
 
Apple OC said:
Zuckerberg was person of the year last year ... Steve should of had this honour years ago :apple:
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It was interesting reading in his Biography where he described how crushed he was when the "computer" won in in 1982 (? or 84, can't remember [edit: it was '82]). He deserved it then, a lot more than Zuckerburg deserved it last year.

He'll get it now. No question.
 
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divinox said:
Gates, not Jobs, is the man who placed a computer in every mans home. Deal with it.
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Actually, neither of them. That honor goes to one Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore. The Commodore 64 sold 17 million, most of them to ordinary households while Apple and IBM PC were largely confined to offices and businesses. Also, Sir Clive Sinclair, to a lesser extent.
 
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