Apple’s CEO Tim Cook Probably Isn’t Using Windows to Read His Emails

It makes perfect sense for a CEO to use the products that his company developed, so when this report from Wired reached the web revealing that Tim Cook’s emails might be handled from a Windows system, Apple fans went crazy.

In an article discussing email tracking, Wired’s Brian Merchant reveals how he used Streak to get information on an email sent to Apple CEO Tim Cook, only to discover that the message “had been read on a Windows computer.”

“Maybe it was a fluke. But after a few weeks, I sent another follow up, and the email was read again. On a Windows machine,” Merchant wrote.

Needless to say, this made many Microsoft fanboys burst into laughter, saying that not even Apple’s CEO uses macOS. Others blasted the article with words like clickbait and biased journalism.

Using Windows doesn’t make macOS worse

In reality, however, there’s very little chance for Tim Cook to actually use Windows. First of all, it’s impossible for the Apple CEO to read all his emails by himself, especially because he probably receives hundreds or thousands emails every day. As many Apple fans know, Cook likes to respond to emails, especially if they’re sent from customers across the world who just want to say thank you for the job he’s doing at the helm of the company.

There’s a good chance, however, that Tim Cook hired people or even outsourced his email to a company that handles all communications unless it’s something critical and which should be addressed by the CEO personally. If this company uses Windows, there’s nothing wrong with it, as it doesn’t make macOS worse by any means.

And in the end, it doesn’t even matter if Tim Cook himself uses Windows after all. Even though he’s the CEO of Apple, the company that makes Macs and macOS, it doesn’t mean Cook can’t use Windows, and nobody should care about this anyway. In fact, most high-profile executives occasionally use products launched by competitors, simply because they need to experience the technology that others are making and compare it to their own.

So no, Tim Cook probably isn’t using Windows, and even if he does, there’s nothing wrong about it.