Apple: Best [-----] of the Decade

CNN / Fortune Brainstorm Tech ^ | December 31, 2009 7:18 AM | Philip Elmer-DeWitt

[Swordmaker]

Steve Jobs and Apple appeared in an extraordinary number of 2009's "Best of" lists

Our favorite: "There's an app for that," the Yale Book of Quotations' No. 3 quote of the 2009, right before Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie" and after Captain Sully Sullenberger's "We're going to be in the Hudson."

Some other citations…

• Steve Jobs: CEO of the Decade. Fortune magazine.
• Steve Jobs: Best Performing CEO in the World. Harvard Business Review.
• Steve Jobs: Person of the Decade. Wall Street Journal.
• Apple: Brand of the Decade. Adweek's Best of the 2000s.
• Steve Jobs: Marketer of the Decade. Adweek's Best of the 2000s.
• "Get a Mac": Campaign of the Decade. Adweek's Best of the 2000s.
• Steve Jobs and Tim Cook: Most Influential People in Mobile Tech. Laptop magazine.
• Steve Jobs: Best CEO Buzz of 2009. Fortune.com.
• Apple, iPod, and iPhone: Silicon Valley's Top 10 of 2000s. The Real McCrea.
• Apple Releases iPhone: Top 10 Tech Stories of the Decade. CNN.com.
• Apple Unveils iTunes: Top 10 Tech Stories of the Decade. CNN.com.
• iPhone, iPod, Mac OS X, PowerBook G4: 10 Gadgets that Defined the Decade. Engadget.
• iPhone 3GS: Best Smartphone of 2009. IGN.
• MacBook Pro: Best Laptop of 2009. Popular Science.
• MacBook Pro: Best Laptop of 2009, IGN.
• Apple: Winner No. 1. TheStreet's Winners and Losers of 2009.
• Live Blogging the Apple Extravaganza: Most-Viewed Bits Post of 2009. New York Times.
• Find My Phone: Pogie Award for Second-Best Tech Idea of 2009. David Pogue, New York Times.
• "There's an app for that": 3rd place, Top Quotations of 2009. Yale Book of Quotations.
• Steve Jobs: No. 3 readers' choice for Person of the Year. TIME magazine.

Those are the Apple (AAPL) year-end superlatives we've collected.

[Swordmaker]

[Swordmaker]

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[blueheron2]

Best irritant on my computer since AOL’s constant updating: I-Tunes

[coaltrain]

Definitely Best Marketing of Overpriced Products. Pure genius. Once Jobs is gone, so is Apple.

[norwaypinesavage]

Best outrageously expensive, ‘gotta have’ techno giz for the rich and also those who want to make you think they are rich.

[Revelation 911]

I just paid $900 for an iMac - floor model / full warranty with iLife & iWork....I’ll never go back - I havent had one single issue since getting it & the design is intuitively supreme to ibm clones....so while youre waiting for boot up....I’m moving on to my next project...time=$

[SunkenCiv]

Best CEO Buzz of 2009.

I think he gave up LSD years ago. :')

[SunkenCiv]

:’) Excellent choice.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/12/30/sales_of_apples_iwork_office_suite_surge_50_in_2009.html

[vox_freedom]

Thanks Swordmaker, for the
!

& Happy New Year to you!

[hecht]

I let you know 1/1/11