Apple's Jobs Loses Out In Paris Street Name Vote
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published December 14, 2016 | 09:35 AM
PARIS, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Dec, 2016 ) - Steve Jobs may have been a technological revolutionary, but his legacy will not be remembered in a Paris street name. Jobs's name was one of several famous figures from the technology industry proposed to adorn new roads in the French capital's soon to be launched tech startup campus in the southeastern 13th district.
The socialist local district mayor Jerome Coumet had proposed naming one of the new roads "Rue Steve Jobs" but the former American entrepreneur, who died in 2011, didn't even make it to the voting booths after objections from communists and ecologists.
Instead, the likes of British World War II hero mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, whose work helped the Allies defeat the Nazis, and American computer scientist and former Navy Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hooper, who pioneered computer coding, have both been chosen.
Apple products such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod may have revolutionised the technological world but Jobs faced a backlash when his name was put forward to be honoured in the hub.
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