WWDC 2016: All the news, video and analysis

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference this week, Apple announced changes to how it will sell apps, to the Apple Watch operating system watchOS and to its messaging app iMessage. But as always, what the consumer tech giant didn’t say is just as interesting.

Top of the list for Too Embarrassed to Ask host Lauren Goode and her special guest host, The Verge’s Dieter Bohn: iMessage, which is getting its own app store and several new features to compete with Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Conspicuously absent, though, is compatibility with non-iDevices, which suggests Apple still sees messaging as a competitive battlefield. Sorry, Android users!

As usual, there were scores of feature changes and announcements to Apple’s four software platforms (iOS, watchOS, tvOS and the newly-renamed macOS) at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Just listing them all here would tax the patience of all but the most Apple-obsessed readers.

But there were two big themes, and a few significant moves consistent with them, that I believe stood out in the cascade of slides and demos the company showed at WWDC. They show how stubbornly Apple clings to both its principles and its profit centers.

Here’s an unexpected but nice feature that Apple is launching in iOS 10: The ability to remove and delete built-in system apps.

Apple has published a list of apps you’ll be able to delete when iOS 10 launches this fall for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The instructions for how to do so are pretty simple, and it’s worth reading what happens when you remove something like Calculator.

A theory has taken hold in tech: Apple’s devotion to privacy will handicap it during the next major wave of computing, where artificial intelligence like voice interaction, personal assistants and automation take center stage.

This morning Apple gave its response: It won’t handicap us, because we can do both.

Developers have long wanted deeper access to the iPhone’s inner workings, so the fact that Apple is opening up Siri, Maps and iMessage is clearly welcome news.

But, while eager to integrate their apps, some developers said Monday that they aren’t sure just how open Apple is getting.

Apple is expected to make some big announcements today from its annual developers conference. On Apple’s plate today:

Here are select excerpts from Apple’s keynote address (Update: And here’s the link to the complete event). Get analysis and more coverage on our liveblog.

Apple is giving its photos feature a big makeover. With that, it’s swinging straight at rival Google — and putting Apple’s artificial intelligence abilities to the test.

At its developers conference on Monday, Apple unveiled a set of new features to its photo storage service. With its latest iOS version, Apple will automatically tag, organize and assemble stored images using AI tech such as face recognition.

Apple announced on Monday that it is expanding its Apple Pay payment system from apps to websites. Recode first reported in March that Apple would bring the system to mobile websites by the winter holidays and that it was considering making it work for desktop websites, too. Looks like both are happening.

Up to now, Apple Pay has worked in two ways. iPhone users could load their credit card or debit card information into the system and then tap and pay with their phone in participating stores. People could also use Apple Pay to buy stuff in iPhone apps without having to type in all of their payment card and shipping info.

Apple wanted to offer its own pay TV service that would run on its Apple TV set top box. That didn’t happen.

So here’s something else: Sling TV is bringing its pay TV service to Apple TV.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, his voice choked with emotion, opened the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference with a moment of silence for those killed in the terrorist attack in Orlando.

Cook took the stage to express sympathy to those touched by what he called a “senseless, unconscionable act of terrorism and hate” that claimed the lives of some 50 people, and wounded at least 50 more, in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub.

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference starts today, June 13, in San Francisco.

As usual, Apple will kick things off with one of its signature keynote events, where it’s expected to unveil iOS 10, improvements to its Siri assistant, new Apple Watch software, an updated Mac operating system and more.

Last year, Apple finally got into the subscription music business. Time to try it again.

Apple is expected to roll out an overhaul for its Apple Music service at its WWDC event Monday, aimed at making “it more intuitive to use.”