San Francisco:  Apple Inc on Monday took the wraps off mobile applications that pool and analyze health and home data, kicking off an annual developer's conference lacking in big surprises, despite hopes the iPhone maker would offer a glimpse into its secretive pipeline of products.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook and Software-engineering boss Craig Federight told several thousand developers about new features that come with the latest "Yousemite" Mac platform and iOS 8, the software that powers the iPhone and  iPad.

Investors are waiting for Cook to keep a promise to create new product categories. Last week , Internet services chief Eddy Cue said the pipeline was the best he had seen in more than two decades, " The Healthkit has most potential for future," said Nils Kassube , a director of development at newscope, a Germany-based consulting firm.

 On Monday, executives talked about "Healthkit," which will pull together data such as blood pressure and weight  now collected by a growing number of healthcare apps on the iPhone or iPad.

The company also announced an app, dubbed "Health" that will be an internal part of iOS 8.

The company will work in tandem with Nike Inc, a major player in fitness tracking, and the Mayo Clinic on the new feature, which will be included in the latest mobile software.

"that information lives in silos," said Federighi. "You can't get a singlecomprehensive picture."

Apple did not elaborate on other capabilities.

 Federighi also described "Homekit," a feature that allows an apple devices to control everything from lights to temperature.

Apple described how "Youemite" will come with a much-improved Internet storage  application similar to those provided by Box or Dropbox, how users can pick up calls to iPhone from their Macs, and how Apple devices would sync constantly with each other, allowing users to pick up on their Mac where they left off on their iPhone.