The keynote for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference has come and gone. I can’t say that all of my expectations were met, but I can say this:

• iPhone 3G should be a “no brainer” upgrade from the current iPhone. Not only will it be substantially cheaper, but substantially faster as well. As Boing Boing points out, there’s a gotcha with the price point of iPhone 3G – the unit itself may be cheaper ($199 versus $399), but the new data plan is more expensive than today’s ($30 – $45 for 3G versus $20 for EDGE). It’s not quite a wash, as you pay for service indefinitely.
• Everyone, mark your calendars for July 11th.
• Good on Apple for releasing the iPhone 2.0 OS for current generation iPhones (EDGE) as well as the iPhone 3G. Everybody will be able to enjoy the new App Store.
• I could be mistaken, but it seems that creative apps (music, video, photo, etc.) will be more popular than games on the iPhone 3G.
• If $9.99 is the going price for the average iPhone app, I’m going to be spending a lot more money than anticipated. For an app that you use all the time, that’ll be a bargain.
• I’m happy to see that Apple is enabling the distribution of free apps on the iPhone without charging the developers anything.
• I’m already a .Mac subscriber, and will welcome MobileMe with open arms when it’s released. Ponzi and I currently use Rackspace for Exchange service – and without custom domains, we may have to continue to use it and Plaxo to sync between accounts. Still, I hope we can rely on MobileMe for group calendaring and tasks. I’m still looking into how MobileMe will interoperate with Exchange, though. Can’t wait to watch the tour this afternoon.
• Looks as though the seventh release of the iPhone SDK is out.
• The next iteration of Mac OS X will be called Snow Leopard, set to be released within a year. No new features beyond native support for Exchange are set to be included. With it, they aim to support newer hardware architectures (like multiple CPUs) as well as fix what’s already in place. It’s an evolutionary upgrade that oughta bring more speed and stability to the Mac you’re using today.
• No word on whether iPhone 3G will support video recording / uploading or not. Maybe someone at YouTube is looking into the SDK (if the SDK will enable such an experience).
• I’ve never been in love with GPS hardware and software, but the iPhone 3G is certain to spoil me.
• The “Apple Push Notification Service” will be the way background apps on mobile devices should have been all along. Instead of sucking up battery and CPU in the background, apps can call upon the service for updates remotely. Naturally, this will require a constant connection to the ‘Net – but when aren’t you connected these days?

If you were listening to the keynote, what are your thoughts about Apple’s announcements and plans?