Embattled Apple unveils new iPhone

Embattled Apple unveils new iPhone

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple CEO Tim Cook strode through a slickly produced video Tuesday to launch a new iPhone, with few hints of the exceptional string of troubles facing his company including policy reversals, a spyware attack and legal fights. Cook-from an empty, darkened auditorium-raved over upgraded cameras, brighter screens and new features for some of the Silicon Valley giant’s other devices like the iPad. “These are the best iPhones we’ve ever created,” Cook said, noting Apple’s work to design the “very best products and services to enrich people’s lives.” Yet a head-spinning series of problems have occupied the recent public discussion of one the world’s most valuable companies.

Due to a long and loud fight over its online app marketplace, a judge ordered Apple last week to allow developers to sidestep its hefty commission on purchases. It has also delayed a plan to scan its customers’ devices as part of a child abuse prevention move, after privacy advocates howled over the risk of opening a backdoor for government surveillance. And then Monday it was forced to roll out an urgent fix after cybersecurity researchers found a weakness that allowed Pegasus spyware to infect Apple devices without users so much as clicking