• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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!”

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      1 year ago

      Nah from the articles it’s more like Microsoft tried to sell Bing to Apple and Apple wasn’t interested

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        1 year ago

        Ahh I see I see. Trying to de-Google atm so vaguely interested in someone other than microflaccid owning bing.

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    1 year ago

    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.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Held talks to give them a resounding no? Bing is an awful money sink I wouldn’t want in my portfolio

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      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.