Here is the installation document for Honeycomb. http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/optimizing-for-3.0.html http://developer.android.com/guide/practic

Here is the installation document for Honeycomb. http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/optimizing-for-3.0.html http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/optimizing-for-... It clearly talks about using the Xoom for testing purposes. So, Google released Honeycomb as a finished product, used Xoom as the reference device and you are telling us that somehow Motorola shipped a product while google was looking the other way. The software is clearly a huge part of the problem (blocke mentioned some). Things which were working fine in Froyo/Gingerbread suddenly did not work on Honeycomb anymore - Flash not working until a month after release, the entire back/home/menu interface was broken. Market place not working, no apps optimized for tablet, no SD card support etc. etc. To their credit Google recognized they messed up and are exerting more control but there is no question they share a lot of the blame on the software side here. Motorola on the other hand messed up with pricing and the late introduction of the wifi only model but I suppose they felt confident after a good showing in CES and good reveiws.