This is not something bad or that it gives us permission to 'crucify' good old Tim Cook, but it is evident that when you are CEO of a company as important as Apple, knowing that many of your users are loyal followers of the brand and all that this entails, this type of problem they have to be avoided so as not to create possible controversies or discussions.
The photo was tweeted on Tim Cook's personal account by Cook himself when he visited the factory that Apple has in Austin, the factory in charge of assembling the Mac Pro. In the image you can see that the workers use the iMac in front of them and in this photo an iMac appears with what appears to be the operating system Windows installed, which many took advantage of to reproach Cook and Apple with 'the typical song' that OS X does not work and that is why Windows is used on Apple's assembly lines.
Those who claim that OS X is not useful for work is because they have not really used Apple's operating system, but we also have to say that some of the tools that we use in our day to day are only available for the Windows operating system for licensing issues and more, that is why Parallels exists on OS X to be able to use them in Mac calmly.
Obviously this is speaking at the user levelWhen you are the CEO of a company like Apple, you cannot afford to create this type of controversy among your users because it directly hurts your image. No one can directly confirm that the operating system seen on the iMac in the image posted by Cook is Windows, but it doesn't look like OS X either and this is precisely what has caused a stir on the net.
Do you see in the picture an iMac with Windows?
It is true that at an industrial level all (or almost all) the control programs are made under Windows, but why not make them also for Mac, as simple as reaching agreements with companies that manufacture all types of machine tools (laser cuts, water jet, table milling machines, etc.), is a personal opinion, of course.
I completely agree. I have been a corel draw user for years and it is a shame to have to virtualize an operating system in order to use it. In fact I still use windows pc due to what it involves running two systems at the same time. Perhaps such a large company should create a way to adapt such programs to the Mac.
They may not want to spend money on it and why change something if it works well for them. This is the usual and apple will not spend money on something that is not for which you buy a mac, it is simply for internal use.