The company said CEO Jobs and other executives will discuss a new service for storing and retrieving media online, called iCloud, at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which begins Monday in San Francisco.
Uncertainty over the appearance of Jobs, who is on medical leave, has been a near-sideshow of speculation leading into Apple events.
Ahead of the cloud launch, Apple has been setting up a huge data center in North Carolina to prepare, says Envisioneering Group analyst Richard Doherty.
"This may be the most powerful data center ever, outside of government," Doherty says. "It will be able to handle millions of streams per minute without any network hiccups."
Apple's move to the cloud follows recent entries by Google and Amazon, with music services that let users upload songs they own to servers that in turn let them pull them down from various devices.
Both Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Drive don't work with the iPhone, and iCloud most assuredly will...
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