After delaying the release of Android Honeycomb's source code while somehow still remaining "open", the story gets even worse for Google. Head of Android and VP of engineering at Google, Andy Rubin spoke out to Bloomberg saying:

To make our schedule to ship the tablet, we made some design tradeoffs. We didn't want to think about what it would take for the same software to run on phones. It would have required a lot of additional resources and extended our schedule beyond what we thought was reasonable. So we took a shortcut.

Rubin says Google wanted to release Honeycomb for tablets as soon as possible so manufacturers wouldn't feel the need to rush out their own tablets running a version of Android optimized for mobile phone use to keep up with the immense popularity of Apple's iPad. Google instead took it upon themselves to rush something out to compete with the tablet. Logical!

In closing, Andy Rubin states that Android will remain an open source project and the source code will eventually be released to the public.