It's no secret that Apple makes Mac computers1but using rival operating system Microsoft Windows to do so appears to be a big surprise for many of the tech company's avid fans.
Macs running what appeared to be Windows XP or 7 were shown in a photo tweeted by no less than Apple CEO Tim Cook over weekend.
It all began late Friday, June 6, with what at first seemed to be an innocuous tweet by Cook of Apple's Mac Pro assembly line:
Tech site PC World noted that this could be a case of Apple's "airtight PR machine" springing a leak, "and right at the very top."
"Ironically, Cook himself took some potshots at Microsoft during the Apple’s WWDC speech, mocking Microsoft for poor customer adoption of Windows 8 relative to OS X Mavericks," it added.
'Tech companies need each other'
But tech site Tech2 said this shows no tech company has everything it needs under its ecosystem.
Tech2 noted Google uses the iPhone, iPad and Windows to test its apps, and Cook’s tweet is thus "not really a slip up, but rather an admission (albeit inadvertent) that Apple is well part of this coterie, and not an island."
"If anything it serves to highlight the fact that tech companies need each other as much as they want you to think you need them. And let’s face it, the talk of faster OS adoption and better numbers compared to rivals is only playing to the gallery. So the next time Cook tells an audience that Apple’s OS is being used more than any rival, that may be true, but we must not forget there’s one thing Windows is good for and that’s building Macs," it said.
PhoneArena.com added there are "just some things you cannot do on some machines running a particular environment."
"For all their any given faults, there just some things you cannot do on some machines running a particular environment, be it Windows, OS X, Linux, Ubuntu, et al. Could the PR person, or Twitter handler, for Tim Cook have chosen another angle to take the picture? Well, yes. How might Microsoft feel? Free publicity and some sense of vindication would seem to be rational
Source: GMA News
