Time Person of the Year: Steve Jobs Should Have Won
NEW YORK (
) --
founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have been named
Time Magazine's
Person of the Year, but more than
half of the readers that took our poll
thought that
Apple
(AAPL) - Get Report
CEO Steve Jobs was the better choice.
About 53% of
TheStreet
readers that took our poll think that Jobs should have been chosen as
Time Magazine's
Person of the Year.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs |
Zuckerberg, the 26-year old social networking billionaire, received the honor over a list of other candidates offered up by
Time
, such as the Tea Party, Afghanistan leader Hamid Karzai and Jobs, who was granted a spot on
Time Magazine's list of "People Who Mattered."
"With each passing year Steve Jobs and his sleek Apple products not only succeed in impressing the techiest of tech addicts, they also manage to create a whole new batch of gadget enthusiasts,"
Time
said, citing the MacBook Air and the iPad as examples.
>>Apple's iPad Luring Small Businesses
"This year, Apple surpassed
Microsoft
(MSFT) - Get Report
as the world's most valuable tech company, when it was announced in May that Apple was worth an astounding $222.12 billion," the magazine noted.
His appearance on the "People Who Mattered" list put him among a variety of public figures including football player Michael Vick, the cast of
Jersey Shore
, pop artist Justin Bieber, Sarah Palin and President Barack Obama.
This isn't the first time Jobs has missed getting the Person of the Year nod. In 2009 Jobs was one of the top seven finalists, but ended up losing out to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
came in second place in our poll with nearly 21% of the votes.
WikiLeaks.org
, which Assange launched in 2006, has published thousands of pages of classified documents. While many find his actions admirable, others think that by revealing government secrets, Assange and his WikiLeaks project could be putting many lives in danger.
Assange ranked among four
Time Magazine
runners-up to Zuckerberg, along with the Tea Party, Hamid Karzai and the Chilean Miners.
Only about 13% of our voters thought Zuckerberg deserved to win the title, while 4% voted for conservative political commentator Glenn Beck, followed by Lady Gaga with 3% of the votes.
In a poll conducted on the
Time
Web site, voters deemed 9 public figures more qualified for the title of 'Person of the Year.'
Julian Assange topped that list
with 382,024 votes, followed by the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with 233,639 votes. Pop singer Lady Gaga came in third, followed by Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Glenn Beck. Zuckerberg trailed far behind in tenth place.
-- Written by Theresa McCabe in Boston.
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