WWDC 2008 Keynote Annoucments, Apple iPhone 3G & MobileMe

by Scott Beale on June 9, 2008 · 4 comments

iPhone 3G

Steve Jobs made several announcements this morning at the Apple WWDC 2008 keynote, here are a few of the highlights:

- iPhone 3G, the 2nd generation, thinner iPhone using AT&T’s 3G wireless network with a built-in GPS, flush headphone jack and availability in 70 countries; $199 for 8GB version, $299 for 16B version, also available in white (available July 11th)

- MobileMe (me.com), a replacement for .Mac. that syncs multiple devices

- the release of iPhone Apps built using the iPhone SDK

- new iPhone 2.0 software (available in July)

- iPhone Maps with GPS

- iPhone in Enterprise

- Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6

image via Apple

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1 podinski June 9, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Recently we’ve begun using clips from Caroline Martel’s ingenious 2007 film Phantom Of The Operator in our XL Terrestrial research project about media ecology… i.e. mass media and the technological wormholes, to Jobs-holes to big brother corporate/state A-holes…

Martel’s a bit like Craig Baldwin and Chris Marker’s god-daughter, tampering with the corporate lines and hacking yur macro viewfinder…

Unraveling the fiber optic cable to its very roots from the beginnings of Ma Bell and its oh so fickle relationship with women labor… and the haunting-to-humorous trajectories of a networked world.

A MUST SEE !

there’s this hilarious archival film sequence ( most of the film is assembled from archive.org footage ) from the PR campaign to instruct consumers on the new dial telephone, and we think it might be Mr. Mc Job’s missing link in a double-breasted suit circa 1950.

Upcoming story on Martel and related media deconstructions coming soon to the XLT site. see above.

Never mind the new shiny apps, what’s in it for humanity ??!

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2 iPhone KeyNote Dissapoints June 10, 2008 at 7:16 am

mobileme was for me the most exciting announcement, but even that is a little dissapointing. thats because its still mobileME (personal info management) and not mobileUS (information sharing). so it cant really be called “exchange for the rest of us”. i guess that keeps solutions like HyperOffice viable as they also allow for sharing of info (contacts, calendars, docs etc) across mac, pc and iPhone.

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