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Steve Jobs Makes Time's Person of the Year List

Steve Jobs Makes Time's Person of the Year List

by , 6:50 PM EST, November 21st, 2005

Time Magazine announced its 2006 Person of the Year nominees on Monday, and Apple Computer CEO, Steve Jobs, is on the list. Time selects a person or group of people each year that most affected our lives, and embody what was important about the year.

Steve Jobs was nominated because of the innovative changes he has made to the entertainment industry through the iPod and the iTunes Music Store (iTMS).

This year saw explosive growth in podcasting, the introduction of video downloads at the iTMS, the iPod nano, video capable iPods, and the G5 iMac with Front Row. Each technology has touched some part of the entertainment industry, ranging from audio to video.

Other nominations include Bill and Melinda Gates, J.K. Rowling, Condoleezza Rice, Bono, George W. Bush, Pope Benedict XVI, The Google Guys, Rick Warren, Valerie Plame, Mother Nature, and Lance Armstrong.

Last year's choice for Person of the Year was U.S. President George W. Bush.

If Mr. Jobs is voted Person of the Year, he will join the ranks of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, former President Bill Clinton, AIDs researcher David Ho, and many more.

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Close Name:Guest
Subject: thanks for nothin

Being put up there with GW doesn't say much for this award.

Close Name:Guest
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Being put up there with GW doesn't say much for this award.


Thank goodness it included the all wonderfull Bill Clinton!

Close Name:dhp Posts: 182 Joined: 22 May 2003
Subject: Um, no

The Time "person of the year" is not an honor or award. It names "the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news" (from Wikipedia). Stalin, Hitler, and the Ayatollah Khomeini have all been persons of the year.

To me, this year's candidate list merely points to what a less-than-interesting year 2005 has been. There was no dominant news story.

Close Name:LaurieF -   TMO Forum Mod Posts: 3547 Joined: 15 Jun 2001
Subject: I disagree

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dhp wrote:
To me, this year's candidate list merely points to what a less-than-interesting year 2005 has been. There was no dominant news story.


You obviously don't live in Sri Lanka/Thailand/Indonesia post-tsunami; New Orleans post-hurricane; Kashmir post-earthquake. You don't often get three more dominant news stories than those in one year.

The quaintly named Mother Nature has got to be more newsworthy than JK Rowling.

Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
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The quaintly named Mother Nature has got to be more newsworthy than JK Rowling.


Well all the recent nature disasters were caused by Voldemort

Seriously, it has been a bad year for natural disasters and I am afraid with the way weather patterns are changing that we are in for more of them

Close Name:dhp Posts: 182 Joined: 22 May 2003
Subject: ah, yes

I somehow missed Mother Nature on the list. Definitely gets my vote.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: it is AIDS, not AIDs

I guess "Syndrome" isn't an important part of the acronym...

Close Name:mrmgraphics Posts: 825 Joined: 05 Sep 2003
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I somehow missed Mother Nature on the list. Definitely gets my vote.

I agree completely. And if I'm not mistaken, it wouldn't be the first time the person of the year wasn't a person. (Didn't computers make person of the year back in the early 80s?)

Close Name:Guest
Subject: It's not seriuos

I don't trust awards, nominations, and so forth.
I always think there is a commercial/political/strategical reason to promote this or that candidate or product...
Furthermore, who are the people who "vote" for the candidate? Are they really cultured? Are they the best minds of Harward or MIT, are they men of science, recognized for this or that talent/discovering? I suppose no. How old are they? And can you figure out how big it is the impact in terms of money and popularity a candidate/company can get if elected? I tell you: huge!

I think any magazine invents its own no-value award, just to make more money playing the old game of the "boss of the village", just like a preistoric tribe. Nothing changed since the preistoric age in the human race, I presume.

One World

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Typical

Hang on a minute for a country that reportedly has 80% believers in God, how come Mother Nature gets the blame for all that mayhem.

Close Name:macinnerd Posts: 1748 Joined: 15 Jun 2005
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Maybe some people think that there is more than god behind all this...

Close Name:Guest
Subject: GO JOBS BIOTCH!!

steve jobs deserves the fuckin person of the year $#!%...I LOVE IPODS!! and pixar... so #@!$ off u assholes that like mother nature...isnt it called PERSON of the year? is mother nature a fuckin person? no dammit!! so shut the #@!$ up and vote for the iPod man!!

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