Jobs tops ‘MDJ Power 25’ list
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 3, 2006 at 9:41pm
Mac Daily Journal, a journal for “serious Macintosh users,” has presented the “MDJ Power 25,” the sixth survey of who has power and influence in the Mac community. Not surprisingly, Apple CEO Steve Jobs tops the list.
“There is no question among MDJ Power 25 voters that Steven P. Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple Computer, is the single most powerful and influential person in Macintosh computing,” MDJ says. “So has it been in all six MDJ Power 25 surveys, and this time, it’s even more so. In the 2004 MDJ Power 25, we noted that 82 percent of respondents mentioned Jobs, putting him on more than twice as many ballots as any other name, and that 75 percent of all respondents listed Jobs as #1, giving him more than three times as many points as #2. In the 2005-2006 survey, 79 percent of respondents listed Jobs, and 77 percent of them put him at the top of the list. No one who listed Steve Jobs ranked him lower than second place, and damned few voters would even go that low.”
The others are the list, in order are: Tim Cook, Apple executive vice president; Adam C. Engst, publisher of the TidBITS newsletter; Jonathan Ive, Apple’s design guru; Walt Mossberg, tech columnist for the Wall Street Journal; Jason Snell, vice president and editorial director of Mac Publishing; Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering; Chris Espinosa of Apple’s Developer Tools group; Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel; Jeffrey Robbin of the iLife development team; Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe; Tony Fadell, senior vice president of Apple’s iPod division; David Pogue, author and tech columnist for the New York Times; John Gruber of the Daring Fireball weblog; Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel is vice president of Pearson Technology Group (which bought PowerSchool from Apple); Brent Simmons of Ranchero Software; Sina Tamaddon, Apple’s senior vice president of applications; Scott Forstall, Apple’s vice president of platform experience; Tim O’Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Media; Bill Gates (him, we assume, you know); Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s chief financial officer; Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of retail; Nick Ciarelli, owner and operator of the Think Secret web site; Bob Mansfield, who seems to be Apple’s head of hardware engineering (he’s not mentioned at all on Apple’s web site); and Sal Soghoian, Apple’s product manager for AppleScript and Automator.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
