Microsoft reportedly pitched Apple on buying Bing to no avail

Illustration: The Verge Executives from Microsoft and Apple met in 2020 to discuss a possible sale of Bing, according to a new report from Bloomberg. But the talks failed to progress beyond the exploratory phase, indicating that Apple's top brass -- including Eddy Cue, who was involved in the meetings -- never seriously pursued the idea. Testimony in the ongoing FTC antitrust suit against Google has made clear that Apple has never given much thought to replacing the leading search engine as the ...