Scream for Ice Cream

Already there are details on Honeycomb's successor, Ice Cream, which is supposedly marrying the best of Gingerbread and Honeycomb.

Here I am considering a Gingerbread phone (Sony's Xperia Arc), looking at a Honeycomb tablet, and praying for a Honeycomb phone by the end of the year, and already there's a successor! These aren't just minor changes between versions either, each upgrade is a whole new experience. These transitions are incredibly fast and is a clear indicator for me that Android is the way to go.

Here come the tablets! One after the other, manufacturers are coming out with tablets that will feature the new Honeycomb OS. As I've noted before, the iOS just fails in comparison against this beast from Google. Every other competitor of the iPad before these tablets were running the wrong OS (read: Windows).

Honeycomb as an OS works. It works better than the iOS on the iPad. And as it can be used by any manufacturer, this just might be the tipping point that will strengthen the second wave of the tablet revolution.

The first real competitor of the iPad was really the Galaxy Tab. But inconspicuously, it differentiated itself from the iPad through one glaring difference: the size. To a point, that was kind of clever. It tried to define a new category and decided not to go heads on versus the Apple pioneer.

One area where the ipad is still untouchable though is the price. Brian Chen from Wired.com has a good theory as to how Apple does it: as Apple does everything in house, from OS development to retailing, they eliminate a lot of costs along the way.