Steve Jobs Named FT's Person of the Year

No one cares

I understand that there are some articles you...'have' to do, Marcus.

Yet you took the time to follow the link and comment? The man is an amazing CEO and a bit of a tech visionary. Deal with it.

Millions of Apple share holders care as well.

Is it just me or does he look very appropriately evil in that pic?

Also, Ohseus... From what I've heard the guy is a huge D-bag.

Shouldn't the person of the year be limited to the modern Homo Sapien subspecies?

"He's more iPhone than human now, jailbroken and unlocked."

he's not a visionary, he just takes available tech and puts it in a shiny package. nothing visionary about that.

I bet with his kind of personality he fits in with the people on Walstreet...

I'd say it's more successful marketing than innovation.

and he still wears that dirty black turtleneck..

As much as I dislike Apple, I cannot dismiss his dominating influence in every market he is in.

ohseus and Blessedman WRONG!!!! Steve Hand-jobs is DA! The only visionary "things" he owns are the people who work for him. Like HE came up with the idea of a cell phone, or anything else. He just makes stupid decisions and sits behind a desk and entertains inter company dealings at any one of his million dollar home$. While stupid pimple faced punk kids like you guys buy into all the media and hype about how great this guy is. Crapple of course loves the publicity so they will let the media hype up whatev. pfft plz dis guyz a bum!

@While stupid pimple faced punk kids like you guys buy into all the media and hype about how great this guy is.

To bunz_of_steel et al,

I always wonder why A-holes are born on this planet. Do you have any real purpose in your lives? What for are you living like? Only to hate?

Oh BTW, am an Entrepreneur and as well as a Researcher who use Apple products/PCs/Workstations/Servers in my business. People like me definitely know what geniuses like Steve Jobs are like. So, please STFU!!

Darn, I thought FT stood for f***ing tw*t.

Being a hoarding monopolizer and patent infringing skater doesn't equal "visionary" in my book. That's been done throughout the ages.

All hail his highness, the mighty and holy jobness

Like he is magical or something. NOT!!

Maybe you should follow your own advise brainwashed kiddie. I have a hard time believing an adult with a company even speaks like this more or less even buys Apple servers. Who does that really? Whats even more embarrassing is every product you mention in your little tirade is some of the most lackluster products Steve Jobs ever made. They are collectively combined to garner roughly 10% of the market.

The guy made a music player, which is dying off rapidly now and a phone. He's done a great job of bringing back fads in electronics. But I seem to have missed the revolution here...

he deserves the accolade

Steve Jobs is by no means a genius. He is a great PR rep, I have to give him that. The statement: "The iPad is the culmination of an approach that he has seemingly been perfecting for his entire career." Unless you mean ripping off the ideas from Xerox, then you are correct. The iPad idea & design came from a Xerox engineer/designer. IMO, the only thing Apple does well is make items look good, but they are no inventors.

^^ I had no idea the Ipad was desinged by Xerox too!!!!

I thought only the GUI was Stolen from them....

now we know what FT Stands for "F***ing Thief"

Jobs deserves the accolades but I am so NOT an Apple guy. If Windows is all warts and flaws it runs my software on so many different peices of hardware I'll never hear of them all. Compatibility is the ONLY thing that matters. BUT, Jobs' shop is oh so creative. I love the ergonomics and clean lines of his hardware but when it's time to work I don't give a rats ass about that. Jobs can have his customers, good for him, but I'm not one of them.

Steve Shobs is an iDiot.

I find every single Apple product utter crap.

Yes much younger than Mark Zuckerberg and his deeds is by far much promising too. iPad is indeed affects lots of people too.

Its a shame that one man would have the nerve to take credit for the products that are made by a collaboration of many minds.

"That means pushing relentlessly forward rather than milking old successes – even ones as significant as the iPod."

Wait, what? Apple DOESN'T milk the hell out of their products, ESPECIALLY the iPod? Whoever wrote this article has no idea what they're talking about. For such a gigantic company, that has been around for so long, Apple doesn't have too many successful products. I'm pretty sure they only thing keeping them alive (aside from the iPad, which I don't like, but is new), is the fact that they ONLY milk their old products.

As for Steve himself, great PR man, but not an inventor from what I've read. He's a great leader, but he's no genius.

I clicked on this to see what FT was...not what I thought.(My version wasn't very nice) Congrats to you Mr. Jobs, your cult numbers are growing!

Funny to see a bunch of haters who know nothing about business complain when someone they don't like gets recognized.

Apple Inc. as a company made a lot of money during Jobs leadership as CEO. Of course the products came from the thinking of a lot of engineers, product designers etc. but it was Jobs that make it possible for those products to enter the market and sell. i really think he deserves that award, though.
btw, i'm not an Apple fanboy...

now in other news, Google just donated 1 Million Bucks!!
that counted more than an award by some magazines in my book. even if that donation is for marketing their browser.

I'd say he deserves being on FT's person of the year, he is a great ceo and doign good pr and marketing for mac products


i'll qualify that i'd be up in arms if he was somehow on a TECH magazine as a person of the year other than a mac centric magazine.

he's a talking head on the front of mac, mac does what it does, takes what otehr scompanies are doing, simplify it so anybody can use it, put it in a shiny pretty case and sell it for a giant profit... thats what they do, and as a buisness model thats great... he has abig following of peopel who are fans because they can use the simple gui's that is also great

pplease ntoe that i'm only hailing the buisness side as i only own one product, a 160 gig ipod classic because i won it, not that i'd actually pay the premium as i understand how to navigate a more sophisticated gui or at least read a manual.. nwo when a cluelss friend wants a pc for word documents internet and to hook up a pinter or camera you can bet i'm gonna point em at a mac if i don't think they can figure out how to install drivers for printers or cameras(though windows 7 does this well enough its still not a fluid imo, one of my roomates has macs for this reason he plugs stuff in and it works and thats all he is capable of doing with a computer)

OK, first of all Xerox did not know what they had until Steve decided put it to real use. Secondly, every GUI that came out also "ripped off" xerox. I put "ripped off" in quotes as other vendors used their ideas with Xerox's blessing.

You mean Apple stole it! period......makes no difference....for all you know apple may have something they have no idea about until someone else comes and steals it.........

but wait they patent...even stevie boys S**t......

Yes every Gui that came out ripped off xerox....that because just like steve.....even bill gates had an idea of using it....... everyone ripped off each other.....

but he deserves the award.....beacause contrary to popular belief.....here is apple.....a "closed system" as far as its products are concerned...that has turned an entire genereation into idroids... buying whatever they sell to them.......

non - compatibility and non -upgradeable...........

and I am an apple fanboy...but wont buy any of their stufff......too pricey for what they offer....