Apple WWDC: No Hardware, No Problem

SAN FRANCISCO — I know, it’s hard to sit through a two-hour Apple event and walk away without a single piece of new hardware. No new categories, no life-changing gadgets. But if you think that’s all there is to Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, then you're not seeing the innovation through the trees.

In the span of roughly 128 minutes, Apple laid out a roadmap for a radical readjustment of its software and, eventually, hardware landscape. And it opened entirely new highways for app developers and partners ready to build health and home-automation technology.