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"super-sparse" was a bandwagon joined by apple, not the other way around...

A bandwagon joined by Apple, sure, but one that now has considerably more momentum & exposure because of their joining.

I've been seeing it massively for much longer than the past couple of weeks. Think of things like Flat UI for Bootstrap.

Agreed, but it will arguably be more prominent then ever going forward, largely because of Apple doing it.