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…
