What is there to answer? The MOST RECENT iOS that supposedly still has the vulnerability is over a generation and a half old. The current iOS version is 16.5. The last generation of iOS with the vulnerability is 15.7. Seems Tim DID answer - via the usual software update. jUst like every other software company deals with bugs and vulnerabilities.
Of course - you too are demonstrating abject, willful ignorance and hypocrisy. What OS does YOUR phone use? If not Apple’s iOS, then it is almost certainly some variety of Android - aka - Google’s own 100% “can’t opt out” spyware and their direct pipeline GIVEN to the Federal Government without any requests, warrants, or court orders... and they sell your private info - and again, you cannot opt out.
a simple statement is not that much to expect...
i’d think accusing the US of using Apple to spy on Americans would generate at least a no comment, but that’s just me