When Google officially announced the launch of its Android 7.0 Nougat operating system this week, I couldn’t help but notice something strange in the air.

Not my sudden hankering for a Mars Bar, mind you; that much I expected. The bizarre part was that despite being a major new Android release — and one with quite a few noteworthy new features, at that — the launch of Nougat just didn’t feel terribly exciting.

It wasn’t anything about the software itself, really. It was more the fact that we’ve known pretty much everything there is to know about Nougat since Google first took the wraps off it this spring.

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