WWDC flashback 2008: iPhone 3G, MobileMe, Snow Leopard, and App StoreTraveling back to the year Apple announced iPhone 3G, MobileMe, Snow Leopard, and the App Store!
As we head towards WWDC 2016 we're looking back at the last few years of Apple's World Wide Developer Conference and the impact each has made. Today, we're all about WWDC 2008. Kicking off June 9 at 10am PDT with a Steve Jobs keynote, Apple had held the first iPhone SDK event that past spring and a lot of what was introduced there was finalized here. That's not to say there weren't some new things as well...
App Store
The App Store was a unified place on every iPhone where every customers could go to get native apps and games created by third party developers. Apple would handle all the logistics and transactions, keep 70% of the money for paid apps, and handle free apps for free.
iPhone 3G
The iPhone 3G was the first iPhone announced at WWDC. Despite its rounder, most plastic case, iPhone 3G was so similar to the original iPhone that Apple only incremented its model number by a ...
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WWDC flashback 2008: iPhone 3G, MobileMe, Snow Leopard, and App Store
