I'd kind of prefer it if they stopped dreaming and started working seriously. I've converted a couple Android apps to Google's new design style with unlabeled action bar icons in the top and other flat design concepts and they all just fell flat with users. Users could find a big, glossy, 3D button at the bottom of the app great. Make it a single color icon without a label and hardly any of them find it, or even try it. Designers really need to stop dreaming and start being a little more practical. Sure Google's and flat design look nice. But they don't work well. It's just silly designer dreaming without real usage data supporting it.
The same thing happened with the removal of the menu button on Android. They moved one of the most used buttons from the most convenient spot, right beside my thumb, to the top of the screen. On top of that screens these days are almost all over 4.5 inches, much larger than the average thumb. Same thing goes for applications with drawers. The drawer icon is a far as possible from my thumb making it the least practical design imaginable. I find apps with the split action bar to often be the most practical and convenient even though they don't look as good.
