Steve Jobs Presents the iPhone and the Podcast World Reacts

Each year, Steve Jobs kicks off Mac­World with a big address, which either con­firms or quash­es all the rumors and spec­u­la­tion about the new wave of Apple prod­ucts. It’s usu­al­ly a big deal, and this year did­n’t dis­ap­point. Jobs deliv­ered with flair the iPhone, which Apple hopes will rev­o­lu­tion­ize the cell phone mar­ket as the iPod did the portable music play­er mar­ket, if not the entire music mar­ket itself. And then there is Apple TV, which will let you wire­less­ly play your iTunes con­tent (movies, TV shows, music, pho­tos and pod­casts) on your widescreen TV.

If you have some down­time, you can check out the video of Jobs’ speech on iTunes or via Quick­Time. For ini­tial thoughts on the iPhone, you may want to read David Pogue’s and Wal­ter Moss­berg’s ear­ly reviews (and also Pogue’s iphone FAQ), and for com­men­tary across the pod­cast world, you can lis­ten in on:

• GeekBrief.TV’s quick sur­vey of announce­ments iTunes Feed
• Engad­get’s pod­cast com­men­tary of new prod­ucts iTunes Feed
  • also see Engad­get’s web page ded­i­cat­ed to Mac World.
• Mac­World’s review of the keynote and new prod­ucts iTunes Mp3 Stream
• Robert X. Cring­ley’s take on Apple’s trade­mark con­flict with Cis­co iTunes Feed
• MacBreak Week­ly iTunes Feed
• Forum on Tech­nol­o­gy & Soci­ety — A pan­el dis­cus­sion on the new gad­gets and how they affect our soci­ety iTunes Feed

Also see Open Cul­ture’s Tech­nol­o­gy Pod­cast Col­lec­tion.