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Macworld’s ‘Most Influential’ People at Apple

I missed David Price’s Macworld piece from earlier this month, where he counted down Apple’s 50 “most important people who made it all possible.”

I must have been number 51.

The top four are who you’d likely expect, and I’m thrilled to see Lisa Jackson on the list (No. 24), but you’re unlikely to recognize a third of the names, and there are some questionable inclusions and rankings here. Al Gore (No. 49) and Dieter Rams (No. 22)? Really? And Phil Schiller (No. 40) and Jeff Williams (No. 35) should be way higher, top 20 at least. And it’s a damn shame that Tony Fadell is (deservedly) on the list (No. 5), but the just-retired and equally-important-to-iPod (and Apple) Stan Ng isn’t.

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