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by cl8ton 4505 days ago
I was told a long time ago by someone who should know.

The tilt had a symbolic hidden meaning... It is pointing to the North-West to MS headquarters in Redmond.
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Someone 4505 days ago
Yeah, that must have been the reason Xerox chose that pointing direction and that Apple copied it: Redmond is exactly North-West from Palo Alto and Cupertino (clearly, Apple didn't do maps yet in 1984)
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jff 4505 days ago
By someone who should know better, you mean? Because that's a really terrible explanation.
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