There's a few background issues here to acknowledge: * The honeycomb emulator is pretty much unusable for development. It's beyond slow, meaning that any sort

There's a few background issues here to acknowledge: * The honeycomb emulator is pretty much unusable for development. It's beyond slow, meaning that any sort of practical development is going to need a physical device. Compare this to the iPad emulator, which is snappy and very usable for development without needing an actual iPad. * The xoom has been out for a month, but it wasn't until last Sunday that you could buy a wifi-only version and avoid paying the Verizon tax. Several people (myself included) eagerly bought xooms on Sunday in order to start developing. * The app situation is grim, but it isn't as grim as the article leads you to believe. Android apps are already built with resizable layouts due to the device fragmentation everybody talks about. As such, most phone apps scale reasonably well even if they haven't been updated for tablets. This is a far better situation than the 2x scaling of iPhone apps on the iPad. So, while there are reasons that honeycomb development has been stalled up until this point, those reasons are quickly disappearing, making it a great time to start developing.