MacTech has released their MacTech 25 for the second year in a row-- it's a list of the top 25 most influential people in the Mac community (as selected by the community itself), and it reads like a who's who of people doing great stuff : John Gruber, the suave-looking Aaron Hillegass and Brent Simmons all make return appearances. This year they chose everyone who's ever programmed for MarsEdit (as Daniel Jalkut is happy to say), not to mention both co-founders of Rogue Ameoba, Paul Kafasis and Alex Lagutin.Who's missing? Anyone from Apple-- MacTech specifically left them off the list to make sure they didn't hog the Spotlight, so to speak. They say that Apple employees are allowed to be put in the Honorable Mentions section, but as far as I can tell, while Leo Laporte, David Pogue and Merlin Mann all made it, no one from Apple actually did. Better get cracking on those influencing techniques for next year, guys.
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6-07-2007 @ 9:32AM
terssi said...
Many old farts from TidBITS, but no mention of Walt Mossberg?
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6-07-2007 @ 10:34AM
SubGenius said...
no props for the Reality Distortion Field Generator ?
Maybe it was turned off during the voting?
These are not the iPhones you are looking for.
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6-07-2007 @ 11:31AM
HoDown said...
who's the goober in the hat?
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6-07-2007 @ 11:50AM
Buckingham said...
Hey, that cowboy is on my Cocoa book cover.
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6-07-2007 @ 11:58AM
Wheels said...
I'm kinda sorry for saying this, but I just gotta....
That has to be the creepiest photo I have ever seen on TUAW. It makes me feel as if I need to protect small children.
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6-07-2007 @ 12:00PM
Wheels said...
I'm kinda sorry for saying this, but I just gotta....
That has to be the creepiest photo I have ever seen on TUAW. It makes me feel as if I need to protect small children.
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6-07-2007 @ 2:29PM
Jeff Kirk said...
Looks like the love child of Sanjaya and Don Imus!
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6-07-2007 @ 4:52PM
Pancho said...
Ya maroons. That's Aaron Hillegass of Big Nerd Ranch fame.
Hey, Aaron! You're the MAN.
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6-07-2007 @ 7:02PM
C. Grant said...
Hi Mike! :D
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6-07-2007 @ 7:37PM
Tim Houghton said...
Since the list seems particularly biased towards developers, where's Dave Hyatt, Nicholas Jitkoff, Adriaan Tijsseling, David Watanabe, Doug Adams, or Erik Petit, to name but a few? I mean, c'mon, I love SuperDuper as much as the next guy, but it seems a stretch to call it "influential" - how many average OS X users will ever use it?
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