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First Facebook's Zuckerberg is Time's Person of the Year Now Financial Times Names Steve Jobs!   First Facebook's Zuckerberg is Time's Person of the Year Now Financial Times Names Steve Jobs!
By Salar Golestanian @ 24 Dec 2010 :: Article Rating
 
Couple of weeks ago Time Defended its choice of Zuckerberg for being the person of the year. They said "Facebook has merged with the social fabric of American life, and not just American but human life: nearly half of all Americans have a Facebook account, but 70% of Facebook users live outside the U.S. It's a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here."

Stengel explained that 2010 is significant because the site passed 500 million users--or one-tenth of the world's population. (In addition to the social networking site's growth, there was also "The Social Network" this year, too.)

Now the Financial Times has awarded Apple the big cheese, Steve Jobs, the title of Person of the Year for "the most remarkable comeback in modern business history".  This refers to Steve Jobs' exit from the company in 1984 when he was ousted by the board. Jobs then made a comeback to the company in 1996 where his streamlining of the company's products and timely introduction of the iPod made Apple one of the greatest consumer tech success stories.

The Financial Times references Zuckerburg, stating that "When Steven Paul Jobs first hit the headlines, he was younger even than Mark Zuckerberg is now. Long before it was cool to be a nerd, his formative role in popularising the personal computer, and Apple's initial public offering on Wall Street – which came when Mr Jobs was still only 25 – made him the tech industry's first rock star".

I guess I should say here that horses for courses for these decisions. Whilst, Zuckerberg has transformed the social media scene, Jobs has transformed the the consumer technology scene for sure. 
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