Technologizer’s Newsmaker of the Year: Steven P. Jobs, CEO, Apple, Inc.
Yes, it’s a boring pick. It’s also as unavoidable as a certain magazine naming a certain president-elect as Person of the Year. Steve Jobs managed to make the iPhone the most buzzworthy tech product in its second year of release and to sell Apple computers, phones, and media players by the bushelful. More then ever, everybody else in the seemed utterly cowed by his sheer force of will. (Well, almost everybody.) He also dealt gracefully (mostly) with inevitable but sometimes tasteless speculation about his health. And is there another individual in tech who could make headlines by not showing up at a convention to unveil new products?
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
December 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Nice work – although I almost agree with Relyt… a bit too much Appletalk for us old school Microsoft geeks who are too stuck in our way to move to Apple. I wonder what the stories of 2009 will be – my guess is that electronic medical records and personal health records will be up there!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Nice work
February 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Relyt Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Good job, but I you seem to be applauding Apple too much (don’t worry, engadget does it too…but unlike with you people make fun of them!). I mean, Steve Jobs not doing the Mac Expo isn’t THAT huge of a story…Microsoft’s ad campaign and XP’s refusal to die (ironically both Microsoft stories) had more buzz than Jobs not doing the Expo.
Relyt
February 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
i work in the cellphone industry so with my perspective, its pretty near impossible to overemphasize the impact the i-phone has had.