Jobs Finalist For Time’s Person of the Year

Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs is a finalist for Time Magazine‘s Person of the Year. Jobs, who returned to lead Apple after a liver transplant, is in third place, just two votes behind U.S. President Barack Obama (2008 Person of the Year) and trails Iran protesters.

If he won, the title would follow Jobs’ win in November as Fortune‘s CEO of the Decade. Jobs is the single business person on the annual list for Time’s year-end cover.

In nominating Jobs, the magazine remarked the Apple leader “has continued to show the rest of the consumer technology world how it’s done.” Time noted the success of the iPhone and the App Store, which crossed the 1 billion download mark. However, with success comes a larger target for critics.

“While consumers continue to snap up the iPhone and its apps, more and more customers in major cities are griping about the poor wireless coverage that comes with it from AT&T. That comment echos the New York Times’ article which also blames the iPhone. Another potential negative for Jobs being named: rival smartphones like the Droid nipping at the iPhone.

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[Via Time's voting page and 9to5Mac]

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CaryMG
The “poor wireless coverage” is all AT&T’s fault.
Apple has nothing to do with it.
It’s like Apple makes a sportscar but the street’s full of potholes.
As to the POTY nom for Steve ….
GO STEVE, GO !!
[I Hope He Wins ....]
ged
“Time” is still in business? How can that be, it was awful 20 years ago, now it is awfully obsolete.
We are all happy Mr Jobs is still alive, I hope he is gets his full health back soon.
http://www.apple.com Anony
Where am from, iPhone come legally unlocked, and easily jumping from one network coverage to another has been a bliss..
Despite any network coverage issues, though, the iPhone is still a nifty machine (on and offline) and I really wish their deal with AT&T ends..
As for Steve.. Well, Steve is Steve, and he deserves it..
http://www.dmny.com David Morgan
I totally agree that Jobs should be among the nominees. However, I don’t think the best choice for ‘Person of the Year’ is even under consideration…
THE LOBBYISTS.
They have held our government hostage, (watered down credit card regulations, nullified health reform, crippled our economy and now, they’re going to destroy any chance of climate change regulations to save us.) They OWN Congress and the elected criminals which hold ‘public office’.
They have brought our nation to it’s knees again and again.
2009 was their crowning achievement. If Jobs could create something that would eradicate Lobbyists that we could all cary around in the palm of our then I’d put him back on the top of the list. Right now they have us in their palm of their hands and nobody seems to be crying about that loud enough.
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