That's an interesting point. It seems to me however as an Android watcher, that when Google developed Honeycomb in parallel to Gingerbread, they created an int

That's an interesting point. It seems to me however as an Android watcher, that when Google developed Honeycomb in parallel to Gingerbread, they created an internal fork of Android to specifically support tablets. What needs to be done and it seems what they intend to do is heal the fork, so they have a single codebase again. The real issue is whether they manage to do that in time for Ice Cream.