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Although I'm less passionate about it, I tend to agree with ChrisNorstrom's comments that the change doesn't seem change enough to warrant neither this level of attention nor such a "detailed" analysis of the changes. Sure, "good design doesn't mean flat" in this post-iOS 7 world, but at the same time, dropping a few details is hardly a revolution.

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True, but he never called it a "revolution," rather an "evolution" and "Not a logo redesign, but a simplification in form and function."

Also, any changes to a product that impacts ~ 20% of all desktop internet traffic [1] deserves some level of attention.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Su...

Fair, but this change will be lost on the vast majority of the users that got them to said market share.

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