Comments on: Steve Jobs tops list of business power people

There are some familiar tech names on Fortune's list of powerful business people--and one tech titan falls a little lower on the list than some might expect.

[joebuff75]

Jobs Time Magazine's person of the year

You can also vote for Steve Jobs to become Time magazine's person
of the year:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,167215
3_1672144_1672125,00.html

Currently he ranks behind J.K. Rowling, Al Gore, Barack Obama,
Condoleezza Rice and Iran's president,

[dascha1]

Music Major

Let's face it. Steve Jobs has taken away so much in the way of
those who've earned college degrees in Music Industry and
introduced music-on-demand to the marketplace way before he
did. I find it unimaginable that Jobs @Apple would no longer see
itself as a personal Computer Science company but a Music and
Entertainment company. This has an echo effect throughout the
marketplace. What's next on the agenda - an MIA Federal Govt
agency since they follow the industry, and don't lead in
competition? What has Jobs really done in the way of directly
contributing to a cure for common diseases like AIDS, cancer,
diabetes, alzheimer's? He never talks about these issues!

[Lee in San Diego]

And you?

"What has Jobs really done in the way of directly
contributing to a cure for common diseases like AIDS, cancer,
diabetes, alzheimer's? He never talks about these issues!"

What have you done about those issues? Besides the Time story
was about business not health.

Yes, I am an Apple FanBoy, but I also admire Melinda Gates for
her Foundation

[geofffeldman]

Jobs is an amazing Human Being!

Little by little I have come to appreciate the genious of Mr. Jobs. Let me share how I have come to learn of his feats. I watched the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" were Jobs is not shown all that favorably. When Jobs is fired by the company he founded it seemed to me that the story ended. There was a graphic about how after Apple he presided over a company that produced computer generated animation. It seemed far more obscure than Apple and I didn't even remember the name at the time(Pix something or other?). At the time of the movie, Jobs had recently returned to Apple but Apple appeared to be only a shell of the company it once was. Well Jobs was not back at Apple very long before the IPod revolution once again put Apple in the spotlight. Then I became a father. As I became aquainted with the children's video industry it seemed that one name was popping up constantly during credits of each new animated DVD I bought for my son: Pixer. The name kind of rang a bell, wasn't that the company mentioned by that movie about Jobs and Gates? Well yes!