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Re:Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squ... by orev on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:18PM (#17914359)
See also: Firefox
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Re:Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squ... by wvenable on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @10:25PM (#17914616)
https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/evolving-the-firefox-bra...

I made a comment about this in a similar vain: Mozilla wants to overload the Firefox name to the point where it's totally meaningless. The success of the Firefox name is no doubt the reason but this fails to recognize that's not how names work. This direction is exactly the reason why Nintendo called their console "WiiU" and that turned out about as well as this ultimately will.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Firefox being the name of a single product. The entire underlying premise of this redesign is flawed.

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Re:Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squ... by pssflops on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:14AM (#17914986)
What is especially notable about this is that Nintendo recently announced that their Just Dance 2019 game will come out on Wii and NOT the WiiU.
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Re:Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squ... by Jonnax on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @02:40AM (#17915553)
Just dance is made by Ubisoft not Nintendo.
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Re:Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squ... by Dreami on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @12:27AM (#17915028)
Just for nitpicking, the Wikipedia article says Wii U too (although I know that was a failure, I was just looking for this because it seemed interesting)
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