> 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 loa

> 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.