Apple CEO, design chief up for TIME 100

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and senior vice president of industrial design Jonathan Ive are both candidates for the in the next TIME 100, a poll designed to root out the publics pick of the most influential people of the year. Jobs, at age 52, enters the running as the CEO of Apple and the largest shareholder of Disney. The executive has already appeared in the TIME 100 on four previous occasions, and was featured on a total of five TIME covers to date. Ive, meanwhile, is listed as the principal designer of Apple's primary products -- such as the iMac, iPod, and the forthcoming iPhone. The publication is encouraging the public to cast their vote on a scale of 1-100 for preferred candidates.

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