Apple’s WWDC announcements were very similar in tone to Google’s I/O, with no radical changes to the operating system, and a focus on expanding the services the OS enables. The company unveiled iOS 9; the Apple Music streaming service – the much anticipated rebranding and reworking of its Beats acquisition; a smart home HomeKit framework; and an open source scheme for its Swift programming language. While Apple Music played directly to the firm’s roots – seeking to revive the glory days of early iTunes and seize the digital music agenda back from Spotify – the Swift announcement showed Apple bowing to the inevitability of the modern software world. This may be another brick removed from Apple’s high garden walls, but…