The Android operating system is from Google and has its own appstore called Android Market. Developers may or may not write apps for both the Apple OS and the Android OS. For instance, Weather Bug is available for both.

There are a lot of brand loyalty preferences so to each his own, but one thing I like about Android is that it is not leashed to one hardware device so you can get it on many different brands. We're watch the tablet computer industry closely to see what comes out for Honeycomb which is the tablet computer OS from Android. I just happen to think that open source is nice because hardware manufacturers can come up with best of breed rather than being tied to one man's (Steve Jobs) ideas.