It's like you don't trust Weyland-Yutani at all.

I only trust Tyrell Corporation for my off-world needs.

I just re-watched Blade Runner. Eerie.

"Building better worlds."

It's oddly natural to see them together.

Many years ago I was at a black market in Beijing filled with every possible fashion counterfeit, and I found one black leather belt that had both Gucci and Calvin Klein logos on it.

It similarly seemed natural for a second ("even more fashion, right") until my brain did a double-take.

The logogram in OP suppresses Google’s four colors, and so did the one on Google’s blog:

https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/appl...

Also, the Apple logo is first. I wonder how this was decided?

Personally, I would choose to put the Apple logo first on aesthetic grounds.

Not because I like that logo better but because it is smaller. Since English reads left to right, if the short thing comes after the long thing, it looks lopsided.

Also, since the Google logo is larger, it is going to be more prominent no matter what, so putting the Apple logo first balances that out a bit. Seems fair to me.

A comes before G? Logo designs typically have a logo followed by text. Seems to apply here too. It might not be anything about who can pee further.

> Logo designs typically have a logo followed by text

This. It would look weird if the order were the other way around.

My guess (hope) is a group of reasonable adults talking about this collaboration (remotely) decided that the order of logos was of far less importance than them working together.

Someone probably said — “how about this?” and scribbled something. May have even been a Googler.

Then everyone else just said “sure”.

At least, that’s how I’d like to think it went.

Alphabetically and/or birthdate

Alphabetically maybe.

Line crossed. Prepare for trouble.

And make it double?

The less scary and comfort version is CIA/NSA rolling out such a service in minutes. How about that?