The story has been making the rounds on different media channels including Gizmodo and the LA Times, but no one knows whether it is actually true.

In late 2020, Musk actually tweeted, “During the darkest days of the Model 3 program, I reached out to Tim Cook to discuss the possibility of Apple acquiring Tesla (for 1/10 of our current value). He refused to take the meeting.”

This would imply that the two famed CEOs could have never had the above-mentioned conversation but the plot thickens as Musk also tweeted “Cook & I have never spoken or written to each other ever," contradicting his previous story.

So what does Higgins, the man who brought us this juicy tidbit of gossip, have to say about all this?

Higgins took to Twitter to issue his statement: "Musk was given plenty of opportunities to comment on this. He didn’t. This anecdote comes from Musk’s own account of the conversation, according to people who heard the retelling at the time."

However, Musk did tweet that “Higgins managed to make his book both false *and* boring" which could be a denial of some sort. In the end, only Musk and Cook will ever know for sure whether that story was true or cooked up by an overzealous reporter. Unless, of course, they decide to issue formal statements on that matter.

Sadly, that seems pretty unlikely.