Bloomberg: Apple held talks with Microsoft about acquiring Bing in 2020

As the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google presses on, we continue to learn more about Apple’s search agreement...

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Microsoft: “Hey Apple, wanna buy some of our stuff?”

Apple: “Sure. What’re you sellin’? Xbox? O365? Exchange?”

Ms: “No No. Bing!”

Ap: “…bing?”

Ms: “Bing! Our search eng-“

Ap: “-Not interested.”

Ms: “C’mon! We’ll throw in uh uh- Teams!”

Ap: “VERY NOT INTERESTED!”
- I like Teams tbh, lol maybe I’m in the minority though
  
  You are. Even MS themselves don’t use it (they use Slack) which tells you just how bad it is
  
  I'll take it a step further. I DONT hate bing. It has its uses. And google is fuckin worthless for porn now.
I’m glad they didn’t acquire it. I don’t need one more corporation collecting every ounce of data they can on me to sell to advertisers.
So uhhhhhhh… they gonna buy it or
- Nah from the articles it’s more like Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple and Apple wasn’t interested
  
  Ahh I see I see. Trying to de-Google atm so vaguely interested in someone other than microflaccid owning bing.
Held talks to give them a resounding no? Bing is an awful money sink I wouldn’t want in my portfolio
- slap apple's branding on it, shove it in front of every mac, ipad, and iphone user.... and it becomes the biggest thing to happen to online search since google's debut of 'page rank', even if it is the same product underneath.
- 10b in advertising revenue a year doesn’t seem like a money sink to me.

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