The actual Android 8.0 website linked in the article (https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/) showcases the features much better than the blog post. It’s actually a really nicely done page, even on mobile.

EDIT: sorry i inadvertently removed my comment on emojis. I was lamenting the fact that the emojis look so different from iOS, which could lead to misunderstandings. And that I find it crazy that every vendor has to make them so drastically different just to prevent infringing on someones copyright.

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.

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.

Speaking as an iOS user, the blobmojis are my favorite part of Android. I regularly use them in Hangouts between my wife and I. I'm going to miss them greatly, they had incredible 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.

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/

Android 8 is crazy slow. Everything is slooooooowwwwww. I used android since Nexus One. But it makes to sense to wait. It's just a rubbish.

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.