Future seems pretty clear. Google pulled an Apple and forked Android into tablet only for 3.0 and will consolidated the OS for phones and tablets (and maybe Google TV) in 3.1. Most likely at Google I/O, possibly later. They are getting bitten in the ass with this coy shit, however. They should just come out what the future roadmap is and say what happened to this point. All this waffling and talk of rushing is hurting.
Of course, on a scale of a few years (possibly by fall, who knows), this will be like Apple banning the Flash complier. A tale, told by nerds, full of sound and fury, ultimately signifying nothing.
"As I write this the Android team is still hard at work to bring all the new Honeycomb features to phones. As soon as this work is completed, we’ll publish the code."
Does that mean the source to Honeycomb itself will be released, or just that they're essentially backporting Honeycomb features to the Android 2.x branch, and will open-source that when it's done? The way that's worded makes me wonder.
Honeycomb was rushed so most likely there are probably a lot of ugly code in there. In the next release (Ice cream), it will support tablets and phones in one codeline. Most likely v3.5 or 4.0 so I don't think it's backport, it's really moving forward.
Doesn't add up to me. If you don't want Honeycomb on phones then simply don't let anyone have Market, Gmail, Maps, and the other Google Apps if they are putting Honeycomb on phones.
If that's not good enough, and you just don't want Honeycomb on phones period... then you don't believe in open source.
That's nice in theory, but this isnt about manufacturers putting 3.0 on phones. It's about ROM developers doing it. You can get those Google apps pretty easily on your custom mod.
Do you think so? They are holding back Honeycomb because a few custom roms, used by a tiny portion of Android users, might port Honeycomb onto phones? I hope that's not what's holding things back.
Of course, on a scale of a few years (possibly by fall, who knows), this will be like Apple banning the Flash complier. A tale, told by nerds, full of sound and fury, ultimately signifying nothing.