Every year, the mercurial head of tech giant Apple seems to outdo himself with another eye-popping, paradigm-shifting product that refuels the brand's seemingly unstoppable line of highbrow gadgetry. In 2010, of course, it has been the iPad, which sold 1 million units within a month of its release and further cinched Apple's grip on the tech market if not (yet) the media world. With iPad sales now outpacing Mac sales, and Apple threatening to do to online publishing what iTunes did to online music, Jobs' formula for the future of computing seems foolproof. Yet as Google and its mobile Android software pose bigger challenges to the iPhone's and iPad's dominance, Jobs knows he can't rest on his formidable laurels.
Who Will Be TIME's 2010 Person of the Year?
Take a look at this year's candidates (listed in alphabetical order) and, now that voting has closed, view the final ratings though TIME's editors who choose the actual Person of the Year reserve the right to disagree