Is Motorola Planning on Putting Motoblur on the XOOM Tablet?
If this following bit of news turns out to be true it will be bad with a capital ‘B.’ Motorola’s European head of Android product management has stated that the company plans to implement Motoblur on the world’s first Android 3.0 tablet, the Motorola XOOM. Even more disconcerting is that according to Jonathan Nattrass, the Moto exec in question, the Motoblur skin would come as an over-the-air update. Why even bother to tease the world with a beautiful new stock Android interface only to steal it away and cover it with Motorola’s crap.
If this comes to be true it will be a real outrage, but something is telling us Motoblur won’t see the light of day on the XOOM (we hope). If Google has been developing Honeycomb for tablets and wants to launch it on the XOOM, why would Motorola take a proverbial crap on the partnership by implementing a new UI after the fact? Why waste all the time showing off the Honeycomb interface more than the actual hardware features of the tablet? We’ll just hope this is a case of mis-worded information and that Moto might simply be implementing some Motoblur-like features in future updates rather than a completely new (and far inferior) UI.
[via Gizmodo]