>If they're ready to ship the binaries It's a little more nuanced than that. They believed the binaries were a good product for 10-inch tablets, but would per

>If they're ready to ship the binaries It's a little more nuanced than that. They believed the binaries were a good product for 10-inch tablets, but would perform badly on smaller screens. If they ship source, though, people will try to get it running on small screens. That's what the Ars article is referring to as cutting corners (an inflammatory statement): Honeycomb could have been generic enough to be a good product on all screen sizes, but they needed to save time to let the Xoom meet its ship date.