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.
Re:Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo
by giancarlostoro on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:57PM
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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.
Re:Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo
by reaperducer on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:34PM
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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/
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.