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Android Honeycomb Born Too Early

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bees-are-in-my-mouth dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "This year's Mobile World Congress was the stage for dozens of new tablets. Unfortunately, Android Honeycomb tablets lacked presence; amongst the top Android tablets demonstrated at the show, only the Motorola Xoom was running Honeycomb, whereas others were running either Android 2.3 or older versions. Moreover, most of the top apps announced for the OS were not new, just reworked. Gigaom may believe that Honeycomb tablets will be iPad's true competition, but progress has been slow, in my opinion. Honeycomb was born too early, primarily out pressure from the iPad getting a one year headstart in the tablet market."

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  1. Two other tablets were running Honeycomb by jac89 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Both the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and the LG Optimus Pad (G-Slate) were running honeycomb at MWC. http://www.androidcentral.com/lg-optimus-pad-hands http://www.androidcentral.com/hands-10-inch-samsung-galaxy-tab-android-30-honeycomb

  2. Re:One year? by DavidinAla · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why do you repeat the lie that Apple "stole" anything from Xerox? Apple and Xerox had a specific deal to allow Apple engineers to see the things that PARC was doing. In exchange, Xerox was compensated in the form of cheap stock in Apple. It's pure ignorance to keep repeating the claim that Apple stole anything from Xerox.