TIME Magazine has come out with their annual Person of the Year for 2012 [Barack Obama], a rather diminished title after many dubious choices in recent years (some of them not even a person at all) and named Apple CEO Tim Cook among the many several “Runner-Ups” — #3 on the POTY list, to be exact — including Malala Yousafzai, Mohamed Morsi, and Fabiola Gianotti.
Lev Grossman writes, “Tim Cook has the decidedly nontrivial distinction of being the first CEO of Apple since the very first to come to power without blood on his hands. For most of its history, Apple has had a succession problem: it had no internal mechanism for transferring power from one CEO to the next without descending into civil war in between. ‘Each time,’ Cook says, ‘the way that the CEO was named was when somebody got fired and a new one came in.'”
“This clearly bothered Steve Jobs, because he spoke to Cook about it shortly before he died. ‘Steve wanted the CEO transition to be professional,’ Cook says. ‘That was his top thing when he decided to become chairman. I had every reason to believe, and I think he thought, that that was going to be in a long time.’ As we now know, it wasn’t,” Grossman writes. “As long as he was handpicking his successor, you’d think Jobs would have chosen someone in his own image, but he and Cook, who was Jobs’ COO at Apple, are in a lot of ways diametrical opposites. Jobs was loud, brash, unpredictable, uninhibited and very often unshaven. Cook isn’t. He doesn’t look like the CEO of Apple, he looks more like an Apple product: quiet, tidy, carefully curated, meticulously tooled and at the same time strangely warm and inviting. He doesn’t look like Jobs, he looks like something Jobs would have made. Cook’s flawless cap of white hair could have been designed by Jony Ive and fabricated in China out of brushed aluminum.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s ridiculous that Steve Jobs was never named TIME Magazine‘s “Man of the Year,” especially back when it mattered.
Hilarious description of Cook
Re: MDN take
You forget Steve Jobs was person of the year in 2006!
So lame…
Ha!, In 2006, TIME said the POTY was “You.”
This has to be one of the best examples of, as MDN describes, “many dubious choices in recent years” that have led to POTY becoming a “rather diminished title.”
TIME rag officially jumped the MOTY shark the year (2001) they named Rudolph Giuliani over Osama bin Laden, if not earlier. (See: 1988, The Endangered Earth or 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev, Man of the Decade – just two notable jokes.)
The left-leaning TIME rag now makes weak, neutered, fearful choices. Another American institution ruined by so-called “Political Correctness” and spineless “leadership.”
Still sad about Romney? Still sad that you removed the Romney tattoo from your face?
Still sad America is lead by the Biggest Loser and I’m not talking about a TV show. Still sad America is filled with low information voters who put America’s Biggest Loser in a position to totally Ef America up for decades to come…
I’ll back up my ‘biggest loser’ comment by simply saying how classless must this douche bag be that on HIS official site, they’d still keep donation buttons on a page paying tribute to the Newtown, CT tragedy!
http://washingtonexaminer.com/gallery/articleid/2516262/1/pictures/2578821#.UNInkXPZk6g
You mean the biggest loser George Bush who single handedly destroyed this country with two illegal wars while cutting taxes? Wars that put us trillion of dollars in debt? Name me one other country in the history of the world that went to war and cut taxes simultaneously?
You are a fool
aren’t GI bodies still being shipped back from Afghanistan? Didn’t Obama Messiah just send another 3,000 American troops back into Iraq? Dzoo, get a library card.
That’s hilarious, because I voted for Obama for many reasons, one of them being that Romney WOULD NOT GIVE OUT specific details (“low information”) about any of his plans.
I agree with the conservative side more often, but Romney just wouldn’t give any details & flipflopped so many times, I couldn’t vote for him.
The One never gave specifics in 2008 or ’12, only Hope and Change, and Move Forward. Why guys like you post pretending to be something you’re only shows you’re a pathetic loser willing to take from someone else’s well earned stuff.
Your swill is sub-moronic. Time Magazine, founded by Henry Luce, remains one of the foremost right-leaning publications available to the general audience. Historically, Newsweek catered to the so-called liberals, Time to the so-called conservatives, and US News and World Report to the capitalist crowd.
Mikhail Gorbachev did more to end the cold war than your buddy Reagan. The Soviets collapsed because their economic system could not support nominal government spending and massive military exploits (also known as empire building or imperialism). When he took power, he realized that the only way that Russia could survive was to defuse the cold war. Reagan, OTOH, merely increased military spending to bankrupt the soviets.
It would seem that the Endangered Earth is still a good choice today, as capitalists continue to choose to pursue policies that will leave the earth a smoking stone. IU hope you’re not planning on having children.
One more thing: How is it that the right wing assholes lille you are the ones who complain against “political correctness where there is no evidences of such? Much like the assault on Christmas which is a complete fantasy. I’m looking out my window now at a public park displaying all sorts of seasonal motifs including Christian, Jewish and other traditions. Go fuck yourself, asshole.
Don’t let your blowhard lies overload your dumb ass.
Basements have windows?
Message to America you pay less taxes then you govt needs to run. This is a path to bankruptcy, you need to raise taxes to pay for the services you clearly need.
What difference does the party in power matter, both are pretty moronic…aren’t they, really? Come on.
The left-leaning TIME rag…
Oh First-Then. Your lack of intelligence remains profound. Time has historically been the CONSERVATIVE LEANING magazine. Ask your Neo-Con-Job pals and they’ll verify. Oops. It’s Newsweek magazine that’s left leaning.
Should we laugh at you or just spit on you for your worthless commentaries, your willful ignorance? 😛
You tell him genius. Nice. His “lack of intelligence” (because he doesn’t agree with you) means that you should “laugh at him and spit in his face” too! Talk about crawling out from under a rock? You are really a classy human being. How’s your new iPad mini working out for you clueless?
You haven’t read my Top 10 predictions for 2013 yet have you? See if you can find it.
Oh, and I always laugh at you, GM. QED. Happy trolling in 2013!
The One led the communist takeover of America. He is the Person of the Year.
Suckers….
Communism? Seriously? Corporate profits are at record highs (that means more money) than ever before, and you think it’s the same thing as Communism. Please. This is why we say the right-wing has lost touch with reality. You hate the black guy – I get that. But pretending he is something he is not only puts emphasis on your racism.
Polite and well deserved applause.
There you Brown Shirts go. Maliciously false attacks for speaking the simple truth. Comparing Your Dear Leader to Lenin, Mao, and Musssolini you somehow find a race connection.
Have you read The One’s own books! He’s an admitted Marxist. Record profits on selling,out before the coming collapse is not a good thing.
Oh look. Yet another profoundly IGNORANT Neo-Con-Job sucker. Or should I say Tea Party dumdum? Whatever.
Go read about politics, you self-important idiot.
Derek, I wish you would refrain from posting while you’re drinking heavily. (again.)
If only. Facts are facts botvinnik. And facts are almost never on the side of the HATERS and IDIOTS such as yourself. Thus you obfuscate facts with PROPAGANDA and more HATE. You FAIL. You make me personally feel ill. I would like to pity you destroyers, but the damage you do is too dire for me to do anything but give you the ridicule you richly deserve.
whoa, I was all wrong Derek, that’s not alcohol talking, that’s Ritalin.
Pazuzu, let us talk to the person inside Derek..
Like I said. You only defense is hate and propaganda. You cute little fascist you! <3 <3 <3
You'd have made Mussolini proud. BARK BARK BARK!
😉
Captain Howdy?
Unretouched video of Derek coming down for breakfast this morning:
Dear botvinnik: Thank you for this motivation to quote your fascist mentor, Benito Mussolini. I’ve got a lot of them. I’m sure they’ll make sense to YOU:
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
– Benito Mussolini
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
– Benito Mussolini
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
– Benito Mussolini
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
– Benito Mussolini
Fascism is a religious concept.
– Benito Mussolini
Enjoy your look in the mirror. Motivations for further reflections upon your corrupt and lost soul are most welcome.
uh, you’re batshit nuts.
No, the point is that you are juvenile, which you’ve kindly demonstrated. I’ve enjoyed this immensely.
“Cook isn’t. He doesn’t look like the CEO of Apple, he looks more like an Apple product: quiet, tidy, carefully curated, meticulously tooled and at the same time strangely warm and inviting. He doesn’t look like Jobs, he looks like something Jobs would have made. Cook’s flawless cap of white hair could have been designed by Jony Ive and fabricated in China out of brushed aluminum.”
lol
Oh so snarky and witty — not
No kidding. Would have been great to see Steve Jobs get man of the year. Instead of the bozo they named this year. That man only divided this country more than anyone else ever. What a terrible magazine.
Obama Named TIME Person of the Year Because He Symbolizes the New, Low-Information America
Whenever TIME magazine announces their person of the year, people begin chiming in with their opinions. Obviously, different people have different idea about who should be PotY and why. Most seem to think that this particular title implies someone deserving, as if the title has positive implications. The magazine has always stated that the title is NOT an honour, and is only about the person who was most news worthy and influenced the world. While vast majority of choices are remarkable, exceptional people who left permanent mark on the world, there are also Hitler, Stalin (twice) and Khomeini.
For the same reason as naming George W Bush in 2004 (winning re-election), they likely chose Obama this year.
What TIME does accomplish during the slowest news week of the year is that people talk about them. That is, essentially, the entire purpose of the whole POTY concept.
Runners-up, not runner-ups.
Learn the language.
Right! And as one of several Attornies-General, I am unanimous in that! 🙂
If Cook had won, MDN would be singing praise for him winning the “coveted” POTY award.
PotY, potty. It’s all the same. Stir up controversy to sell paper. Good for them. Plus it gives Rush fits…
I thought that North Korean Fearless Reader riding that horsy was the winner? lol
Didn’t North Korea kick the USA in the ass in the 50’s
No. South Korea lives.
North Korea meanwhile dies a little every day. I mourn for people trapped under self-destructive regimes, of all kinds.
Cook certainly deserves Human Of The Year. His first official year as CEO has been remarkable, despite the famous flaws of imperfection. Apple continues to show the self-destructive BIZNIZZ BOZOS out in our global economy how to do things right. The same cannot be said of anything going on in Washington, DC, where the BIZNIZZ BOZOS rule and the vultures are circling in ever larger flocks.