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I worry too, but the good news is that Honeycomb looks like it may well escape the near-death experience of launching too early with the Xoom. If you gloss ove

by zmmmmm 16y ago

I worry too, but the good news is that Honeycomb looks like it may well escape the near-death experience of launching too early with the Xoom. If you gloss over the small glitches nearly everyone who uses it loves it. Fingers crossed we're heading to at least two viable tablet OSes, if not three (number three being a total wildcard, but I would probably pick windows 8 if only because eventually business adoption will give the momentum).

kragen 16y ago
Honeycomb is still proprietary, isn't it? And Motorola is notorious for locking down its devices so users can't control them, even if the users do have a version of software that they want to install. (Edit: glad to hear they aren't doing that on this one.)
- zmmmmm 16y ago
  > Honeycomb is still proprietary, isn't it? It is proprietary but users have enormously more freedom than they do with the iPad. Just the ability to side load apps makes a universe of difference. Further I'd be very surprised if most of the current crop of tablets don't get the upgrade to (open source) ice cream sandwich at the end of the year. > And Motorola is notorious for locking down its devices The Xoom bootloader is unlocked, so presuming ICS gets released it should be possible for people to flash it on there even if Motorola doesn't want to do it.