This is a great concept, but the execution leaves something to be desired. Google really needs some detail obsessed folks. How do they not notice the flicker on the transitions of the app market carousel? Also, a linear transition? Yuck.
I'm reading this on an ipad, and in portrait mode this page https://play.google.com/about/features/ is unreadable because the text slides behind the pictures.
Apparently noone has thought about whether the site is even usable for someone with a horizontal screen resolution of less than 1024px - which in this age of mobile devices is probably a double digit percentage of users.