Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo

Well, Apple can update theirs to be less confusing as well, no? ;)

I for one will miss the old blobmojis which at least had some personality.

I always liked Microsoft's approach to emojis, a font that any other manufacturer / vendor could use. The benefit being that if your device doesn't have emojis, it does have fonts and can download fonts, thereby emojis would load. I can't find the article about it, read it ages back, but it was kind of interesting.

Yes, since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15066729 was posted earlier and points to the canonical site, we've merged this thread into that one.

I agree, the Android page is very nicely done. But it reminds me too much of a copy of Apple's much better MacPro page: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

It drains my phone battery with the same speed as previous version, but all application are in "optimized cpu cycle", that leads to slooooowwww application opening and switching. Sometime I caught myself with a though to throw my Nexus 5x to a wall. Im observing Android ecosystem for a while and I don't see any good changes - only minor updates that presented as big deal. If Android is unfixable, broken by design, do something: a new operating system, a new way to manage memory and cpu adapted for ARM battery saving from the scratch. It's hard, it's painful, but WTF you're GOOGLE with thousands employees ready to start creating a new amazing stuff.