The second coming of the iPhone, and more: Our coverage of the Apple WWDC conference
Silicon Valley isn’t the most spiritual place in the world — usually. But sometimes, Apple manages to make many of the most cynical of geeks into devout followers. Today, for example, the company has announced a second, significantly improved version of the iPhone at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. It has satisfied months of breathless anticipation about its plans to further compete in the mobile hardware and software market.
At least some VentureBeat staff members are among the devotees. MG Siegler and Dean Takahashi live-blogged all of the company’s announcements today. Below is a digest of our coverage, including a couple related announcements. Posts are listed chronologically, with the most recent at the top.
MG has also led a large, real-time discussion with many of our readers on Friendfeed, using this Friendfeed group he created: VentureBeat WWDC Livestream. Check it out.
Our WWDC posts:
The WWDC keynote had me at the $199 iPhone 3G
WWDC’s missing “One more thing” announcement: FriendFeed rocks for live event coverage
iPhone 3G questions unanswered: AT&T subsidy, 3G data price, no video?
WWDC live blogging: Steve Jobs takes the stage, unveils the $199 3G iPhone
WWDC live blogging: Apple launches MobileMe
WWDC live blogging: More new iPhone features
WWDC live blogging: medical apps from Modality and MIMVista on the iPhone
WWDC live blogging: Next up, games on the iPhone with Sega’s Super Monkey Ball and more
Steve Jobs kicks off the keynote speech at WWDC: iPhone news
A preview of Live blogging from the WWDC
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About the Author, Eric Eldon
Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.