Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade" 346
longacre writes "Apple CEO Steve Jobs won over 30% of the vote in an online poll published by personal finance and investing news site SmartMoney.com, enough to earn their 'Person of the Decade' title by a solid margin over luminaries such as Warren Buffett (17%), Ben Bernanke (13%) and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page (12%). From the article: 'Certainly, Jobs accomplished more than probably any other CEO since he returned to Apple in the late 1990s: Not only did he revive sales at the failing computer company, he led the stock to a more than 700% increase in value, and forever changed the way people buy and listen to music.'"
Re:What about the iPod person? (Score:3, Informative)
Here he [ideafinder.com] is.
Re:First decade of this millennium (Score:2, Informative)
There was no Year 0 so the indices start from 1 in this case. The second millennium ended at the end of 2000 and this decade will end at the end of 2010.
Re:First decade of this millennium (Score:2, Informative)
The calendar has no year zero.. So first decade is year 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.. Second is 11 thru 20.. i.e. This current decade is 2001 thru 2010. The media makes the same mistake as they did with saying 2000 was the new millennium and then in 2001 go "whoops". That is what he/she is talking about!
Re:Most ways are overrated or overstated. (Score:3, Informative)
The "last decade" is synonymous with "since the late 90s".
Re:First decade of this millennium (Score:3, Informative)
There was no Year 0 so the indices start from 1 in this case. The second millennium ended at the end of 2000 and this decade will end at the end of 2010.
Yes and no. This decade, the first of this millennium, ends at the end of 2010. But this decade, the naughties, does however end in a matter of days. They're not mutually exclusive, various decennia can co-exist.
Re:Am I crazy... (Score:3, Informative)
Google improved web search. Apple with Steve Jobs improved portable music (iPod), music and video distribution (iTunes and AppleTV), mobile phones, personal computers (first computers to go all-USB, Firewire, consumer-friendly iMacs, trendy computers), and to an extent, operating systems (not that Mac OS X is revolutionary, but they open sourced it, which is unprecedented for a commercial operating system for end-users). I don't think there is a single sector of the consumer electronics or computer industry that has not been significantly affected by Steve Jobs.
Google is positioning itself for this honour in the coming decade with Android, its online apps, AppEngine, etc. but I don't think they've had as significant an effect on the end-user as Apple this past decade.
Re:Exactly how did Bush sink the economy? (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, it was the first time in US history that was ever done.
Further, he paid for those two wars using borrowed money, and using "emergency appropriations" instead of putting the wars in the budget, so that it would seem like the budget deficit wasn't as bad as it really was.
By the way, those two wars, over 6 years, cost more than the Health Care Reform legislation will cost over the next ten years.
Re:What about the iPod person? (Score:4, Informative)
You're simplifying matters... Drastically.
For example, without the release of the iMac in 1998, apple surely wouldn't have survived long enough to release an iPod.
Without OS X (admittedly in development before SJ's return) it probably wouldn't have got there either.
Without the revamp of apple's laptop line in general to make them into arguably the best laptops money can buy did a good amount too.
Without the iPod, it probably wouldn't be in the enormously successful state it's in now.
Without the iPhone, it probably wouldn't be looking too rosy right now either – iPod sales are slipping now.
Essentially what I'm saying is – there's significant vision and management going on here. It's not *one* hit product that someone got lucky on, it's a history, since he came back of *every* part of the company improving what it's doing, and becoming generally more appealing.
Re:Exactly how did Bush sink the economy? (Score:1, Informative)
>If the deficit is so terrible, and I agree that its bad, then, isn't Mr. Obama three times worse the President Bush was, just from the sheer weight of debt?
Protip: Over 800 billion of the stimulus package, as people have been calling it under the umbrella term and saying it's Obama's... Was funding approved by George Bush before he left office.
That means less than half of the stimulus total spending is Obama's.
Bush also DOUBLED our federal debt in his 8 years. From 5 to almost 12 trillion.
We're just over 12 trillion now.
Obama's barely made a scratch compared to what Bush has done.