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Financial Times names Steve Jobs 'person of the year'

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 25 Dec 2010 11:13 User comments (5)

Financial Times names Steve Jobs 'person of the year' Although Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg won the Time's editor "2010 Person of the Year" and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won the online popular vote, the Financial Times had someone different in mind, naming Apple CEO Steve Jobs their 'person of the year.'
Reads their article:
"As technology colonises every area of our lives – music, films and art – so nerds are the emperors. So it has come to pass. Steve Jobs, the polo-necked Apple chief, described this week by US president Barack Obama as the 'epitome of the American dream,' is the Financial Times' Person of the Year."


Obama was celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit of the American people, saying: "We celebrate somebody like a Steve Jobs, who has created two or three different revolutionary products. We expect that person to be rich, and that's a good thing. We want that incentive. That's part of the free market."



In a busy year, even by Apple's standards, the company has launched the iPad tablet, a revamped Apple TV, the iPhone 4, new MacBook Air models and fully updated iPods.

Apple has had record sales quarters for their iPhone, and outsold even the most liberal analyst expectations for the iPad.

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5 user comments

126.12.2010 11:50

You can hate the guy, but he produces results.

226.12.2010 21:54

Originally posted by KSib:
You can hate the guy, but he produces results.
I agree. Jobs know how to manipulate the market. For now :P

328.12.2010 04:21

This guy is a genius selling JUNK products to morons who buys them.

428.12.2010 08:31

Originally posted by kfir1:
This guy is a genius selling JUNK products to morons who buys them.
Read my mind

529.12.2010 17:33

Originally posted by favosys1:
Originally posted by kfir1:
This guy is a genius selling JUNK products to morons who buys them.
Read my mind
+1. Manipulate the market he does too ! ^^

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