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Social media monitoring firm SocialNuggets was tuned into Apple's developer conference (WWDC) this week, and specifically the news revealed during CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address. The firm's goal was to see what Internet users had to say about all of Apple's new products and services.

To reach its conclusions, SocialNuggets monitored over 12,000 social media mentions, blog posts, forum postings and other online mentions. The results are not surprising. For the most part, the reaction to nearly all of Apple's announcements, from iOS 5 to iCloud and beyond, was overwhelmingly positive.

There was a lot of buzz prior to today's announcements at WWDC about the deals that Apple had reportedly struck with the major record labels. Even before any Apple executives took the stage, many industry observers had crowned Apple the heir apparent to music in the cloud, decreeing that its offerings would surely trump those recently announced by Google and Amazon.

But now that the dust has settled and the glimmer has faded from today's keynote at WWDC, we have to ask, has Apple really triumphed here? Did we see the future of digital music unveiled onstage?

At WWDC this morning, Apple announced that its iOS mobile operating system, which powers iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices, is now at #1 in terms of market share. iOS has 44% of the total mobile OS market, compared to Android at 28%.

According to Scott Forstall, SVP of iOS software at Apple, 200 million iOS devices have been sold, 25 million of which were iPads, Apple's tablet computer released just 14 months ago.

When you are one of the biggest corporations in the world and it is your biggest day of the year, you are a lightning rod of attention, both good and bad.

The Web is buzzing about Apple's World Wide Developer Conference. Of the topics to be discussed at the keynote, Apple's newest product - iCloud - is drawing the most attention. In that vein, a German music-streaming startup called Simfy has filed a lawsuit against Apple for allegedly withholding approval of its iPad application because it is a potential competitor to the iCloud streaming service.

Apple is extending it suite of productivity apps further down its mobile device chain today, announcing that its iWorks applications will be available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

That means that Keynote, Pages and Numbers are now available to a huge number of users outside of Mac and iPad owners. At $9.99 each and available through the App Store, Apple should be able to make a tidy sum off of its productivity apps. The apps will be available to third and fourth generation iPod Touch owners and iPhone 3GS/4 users.

In a press release today, Apple set the agenda for its World Wide Developers Conference, set to start next week in San Francisco. In a bit of a surprise move, Apple said that its new cloud initiative would be part of the topics of discussion and that it would indeed be named iCloud.

We speculated at the end of April that iCloud was to be the name of Apple's cloud service after it bought the domain name from Swedish cloud service XCerion for $4.5 million, according to Om Malik. iCloud.com is still redirecting to CloudMe, what XCerion rebranded iCloud ahead of Apple's domain purchase. The question becomes now: what is this iCloud going to look like?

This morning, much of the tech world stood still as Steve Jobs delivered his keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, introducing the next-generation iPhone. As usual with a "Jobsnote," Steve took some time to let the audience know where the company stood with a few back-patting statistics. Jobs said the iPad has added 8,500 native apps since launching two months ago - a growth rate nearly three times that of the iPhone and iPod Touch two months after the launch of the AppStore in 2008.

The iPhone 4 is now here and it's all that we had hoped for and... well, that's about it. Apple's now predictable keynote began with stats, ended with "one more thing" and detailed a few highlights throughout regarding the company's latest creation, the iPhone 4.

But one thing didn't happen today: We weren't blown away. We weren't surprised. We didn't jump up and down, screaming. We don't even know if we'll rush right out and get one.

In fact, we might just skip the iPhone altogether and get an Android phone instead.

This morning at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple is expected to introduce its newest member of the iPhone family as Steve Jobs is set to deliver another carefully crafted keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). As per usual, the highly-anticipated event has sent the rumor mills spinning as Apple has remained tight-lipped about what to expect from today's announcement (with the exception of a leak or two). So just what should we expect from Apple today at WWDC? For starters, here's an infographic breaking down previous iPhone events that should give you a picture of what's to come.

You may have heard that a little company called Apple will be announcing, among other things, a new iPhone today. Supposedly called the "iPhone 4" (or maybe the "iPhone 4G? HD?"), for the first time ever since the product's initial debut, news of the company's latest gadget may not be met with same levels of adoration granted to Apple's previous announcements - and not just because photos of a stolen iPhone prototype spoiled us by giving away all Apple's secrets in advance.

No, today Apple is finally facing some tough competition in the smartphone space from none other than its former friend and partner Google, whose Android mobile operating system can now be found on a range of devices including the new must-have phone, the EVO, as well as the Droid, the Nexus One and more.

In a matter of hours, we'll find out if the iPhone can still compete.