WWDC was the first Apple event I’ve gone to and it was a bit like going to a concert. When Steve Jobs was on the stage the crowd ate up everything he was selling. When he wasn’t on the stage (which was actually quite often), the crowd got antsy. Maybe that’s just because they waited well over an hour into the event before unveiling what everyone was waiting for: iPhone 3G.

And boom: $199.

I barely got a chance to sit back and watch any of it since I was writing nearly every second that it was going on, but if you ever have the chance, it’s definitely something worth going to.

Covering it on FriendFeed went great. Find the page with the rest of our VentureBeat coverage here.

As for my predictions yesterday…

3G iPhone – Mostly right. It has GPS and better battery life, but no video streaming (though that could change in the future with software) and the camera is the same. I nailed the black and white colors, but was off on the storage (it’s still 8 and 16 gigs). My prognostication on the pricing was much better on VentureBeat than it was here — it is in fact $199, something which I am very happy about. I predicted last June, instead it will be early July, close enough.

iPhone Nano – Wrong on this front. I thought this would be something Apple would release for $199, but instead the iPhone 3G is that price. Still, in the future, I would expect to see Apple make a smaller version of the phone.

iPhone 2.0 Software – Showed off extensively, but doesn’t seem to explicitly be called OS X iPhone, even though the banners proclaim that. It won’t be available until July either.

iTunes 8/iTunes App Store – The App Store was announced as is coming in July. As for iTunes 8, no word but there will undoubtedly need to be a new version for the App store.

Mac Fusion – This, apparently, was fake. Unless Apple announces it later in the week, which I doubt.

Me/MobileMe – Again, mostly right, but I was wrong on the price. I thought it would be free, instead Apple kept it at $99 for a year, which I still think is too high. Portable devices are a key part and it is in fact called MobileMe – but found at me.com.

OS X Snow Leopard – This is in fact the name of OS X 10.6 and though Apple didn’t say too much about it, they did show it off to developers later in the day.

All in all not too bad. A few bloggers have expressed disappointment in the event, but I’m still in disbelief that Apple actually made the iPhone 3G $199 – that is going to be huge. I plan on getting the 16 GB white one for $299 — only because I’m an elitist snob.