Apple on Tuesday will discuss new features for its iPhone software.
Apple has summoned the legions of journalists who cover the company for an advance look at the newest version of the iPhone operating system.
Extra lint rollers, presumably, will be on hand to clean up after detritus left by the geeky horde that will soon descend upon Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) tidy Cupertino, Calif., campus Tuesday.
While Apple is playing it cool, last March it dumped a king-sized load of pain on the rest of the smart phone industry by detailing its App store software distribution service, unveiling a Kleiner Perkins-backed venture fund to pump dollars into ciPhone software startups and a plan to take on Research In Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ) for a chunk of the corporate market
