(WIRED) -- Android chief Andy Rubin took to the blogs Wednesday evening to combat recent reports of Google clamping down on Android's openness. "We continue to be an open source platform and will continue releasing source code when it is ready," wrote Rubin on the Android Developer Blog. "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. This temporary delay does not represent a change in strategy." Google has championed its platform as the open alternative to Apple's closed iOS system. That openness has been called into question recently, as Google has yet to release the Honeycomb source code to all developers and manufacturers.
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Google has championed its platform as the open alternative to Apple's closed iOS system
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Honeycomb is Android's first tablet-optimized software release
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Rubin emphatically denied other rumors of ARM-chipset standardization in the platform
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