Apple of our eye?

APPLE always seemed like the perfect company.

Not so fast. When chief executive Tim Cook testified before the US Congress, he didn’t come to talk about Apple’s latest amazing gadget or the need to grant more visas to computer programmers.

Rather, in his maiden voyage to Capitol Hill as Steve Jobs’s successor, Cook had to defend the company’s tax-avoidance efforts. What should have been a triumph for Cook was instead an awkward encounter.