Google's claim to be so open has been terminated, as tonight Google says the source code for Android 3.0 Honeycomb will be delayed "for the foreseeable future". As John Gruber writes on Daring Fireball, "Guess we need a new definition of 'open'." This means programmers and hackers cannot access the code for the OS and therefore cannot modify.

Google and many Android fanboys have traditionally advertised one of the major pluses of Android to be its openness. It's actually why many people buy an Android device. Granted, there's still a large percent of buyers that don't even know what it means to be "open" and still buy an Android device. I'm sure Google saw the criticism coming very shortly after they made such an announcement, but really what is left? Is there really an Android feature that makes someone say "wow, I have to have that on a tablet"?