Thanks for all the FUD, but the point is that “tablet-optimized” is itself a loaded term. As Android developers have been dealing with varied screen sizes in their apps for years, the vast majority of apps originally written for phones scale perfectly well to the Xoom’s screen size. Hence why I say these people have clearly never used one before. Just because apps originally written for tiny iPhone screens (remember, the iPad came out before the iPhone 4, which introduced better resolution) looked like crap on the much larger iPad screen doesn’t mean Android apps do.
Take for instance SlingPlayer. It’s not “tablet-optimized”, but it looks great on the Xoom. Why? Because the people who wrote it were smart enough to code their program to adjust for resolution. They’re not the only ones - every single program I use on my phone (Droid X) also works on my Xoom, with no noticeable drop in quality.
Then all those articles from respected NON-Apple sources are slinging FUD? I don't think so. Your Xoom is therefore just a big Android phone? No, those apps are NOT tablet optimized apps.
Then using your criteria for counting apps, then the iPad has 350,000 apps plus the 70,000 apps that are iPad optimized. You Xoom is simply not in the same league.
No, you can't have it both ways. Either the apps are optimized for the tablet or they are not. Just because it CAN run them... it doesn't mean they run well... and most of the reviewers say the phone apps DON'T run well or fit on the wide screen format properly, often operational screen buttons spill into areas where they are simply unreachable! On the iPad, because the form factor was maintained, they do fit and work. Many times these reviewers are ANDROID fans... and they are not happy with the state of app availability.