In last place at #207, with a dismal average rating of 17 out of 100, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has amassed a significant number of votes (40,214 to be exact) as of this writing.
Most others placed so low can barely muster 5,000 votes. Even Eliot Spitzer currently ranks higher than Jobs (#202, 22 rating on 5,136 votes).
Bill Gates, in contrast, is currently in 4th place, with an average rating of 62 on 11,066 votes. In an even worse example of ballot-stuffing, and just like last year, Korean pop star “RAIN” is in first place with a 67 rating on over 750,000 votes!
What this all says to us is that Jobs is currently being voted down, Gates being voted up via campaigns by some Anti-Apple, Pro-Microsoft website(s), and RAIN fans make Apple fans look apathetic (which isn’t easy).
Well, turnabout is FairPlay™. 
We can vote, too! Just slide the slider to the appropriate rating, 1 for least influential, 100 for most influential, and click the “submit” button.
We’ve assembled these handy direct links to the voting pages for the following nominees:
• Steve Jobs
• Bill Gates
• Steve Ballmer (Rank: 83, Avg. Rating 42, Votes: 7,411)
• Mikey Dell (Rank: 122, Avg. Rating 38, Votes: 4,180)
The full list of nominees is here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Leveldown” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Juvenile? Maybe. Beaucoup hits for TIME? Sure. Necessary? Most definitely! You know what to do.
[UPDATE: 3:53pm EDT: Added Monkey Boy to links list. Thanks, Derek.]
[UPDATE: 4:32pm EDT: Added Mikey Dell to links list. Thanks, Derek.]
Jobs now at 23. With a few hundred thousand more votes maybe he can make to 24.
Give 1 to this Rain & cia.
Current standings:
Rank: Name, Avg. Rating – Total Votes
12: Gates, 56 – 12,159
89: Ballmer, 41 – 7,582
122: Dell, 38 – 4,201
200: Jobs, 23 – 43,352
Why is there no ‘0’ option? A one seemed to high for Ballmer and Gates.Kind of made me feel dirty.
What a pointless poll…
You can vote multiple times (just flip the page and back) and some nobody named “rain” is at the top???? whatever.
Current standings:
Rank: Name, Avg. Rating – Total Votes
15: Gates, 55 – 12,367
89: Ballmer, 41 – 7,643
121: Dell, 38 – 4,243
200: Jobs, 23 – 43,841
This list a joke. Number 2 is a korean pop singer. no.1 is colbert etc…
This list is a joke. I would not even bother to vote.
Did you guys bother to read the pros and cons? What is this crap?
PRO: With its raved-about interface and unmatched hipster cred, the iPhone changed everything.
CON: The “gPhone” (not an individual phone, but a Google-designed open-source operating system) may change everything again. What’s more, iPhone fatigue set in almost simultaneously with iPhone hype, and complaints about service remain. AppleTV — a sort of iTunes/TiVo superbox for television — has yet to find a toehold. And will people keep updating their expensive Apple electronics in a recession?
Current standings:
Rank: Name, Avg. Rating – Total Votes
19: Gates, 52 – 13,403
93: Ballmer, 40 – 8,017
127: Dell, 36 – 4,520
195: Jobs, 25 – 48,386
MDN MW: “effect.” As in, MDN is having an “effect” on TIME’s poll.
¡Viva Colbert!
The cons for steve jobs is the gphone, the cons for the head of google are the gphone!!! What a joke
I just want to add some information about Rain. Rain was in the Time’s Top 100 in 2006 and this was not a poll ! Rain is a talented singer and actor, popular not only in Korea but throughout Asia. He even clinched one of the main parts in Speed Racer (Taejo), he even has a Lego Mini-fig (http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=8159&cn=527&d=261) for that matter.
I think most of the votes come from Asia outside Korea. Then so many votes means there’s actually a world outside the USA…
If you want more info about Rain, go here http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Rain.php or on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_(entertainer)
Rank: Name, Avg. Rating – Total Votes
47: Gates, 47 – 14,874
98: Ballmer, 39 – 8,275
138: Dell, 35 – 4,697
195: Jobs, 25 – 55,580
ok i just voted over 40 times between yeserday and today and steve jobs is still at 26…. come on guys.. i just want him to beat mr gates.. …at everything