The Financial Times also decrees who the 2010 Man of the Year is: Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple.
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End of the year: time for rankings and titles. The practice is now well-established in many sectors, and not even the Financial Times escapes it, as it decrees the man of the just-passed year annually.
If for Time, Mark Zuckerberg is the 2010 innovator, for the Financial Times, the Man of the Year is Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. He deserves credit for bringing Apple back to great heights, thanks to the launch of the iPad which, like no other Apple device, recorded a real boom, as well as opening a market – that of tablets – which is currently enjoying great momentum.
For the Financial Times, Jobs is “The Silicon Valley visionary whose small screen dream brought Apple back to the top”.
The rise of “Mr. Apple” in 2010 is, for the FT, all the more significant when considering the moment in Jobs’ life when all this happened: in the aftermath of his battle with illness. Everyone will remember his temporary withdrawal from public appearances and then his return – which marked the resumption of Apple’s growth – on the stage of the Yerba Center in San Francisco, in January 2010, precisely to present the iPad.
For the Financial Times, therefore, Steve Jobs – 2010 Man of the Year – is in a magical moment, in the spotlight, projected into the future.
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