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