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.