My wife has a ipad2 and i have a samsung galaxy tab 10.1,the samsung is better most apps are free on android where as on the ipad they try and charge you for pretty much everything.The samsung is also more user friendly when web browsing because you can use flash player (apple refuse this). Dont buy into the apple hype.
Apple refuse because it's not the way forward
Don't be put off by the non flash as Adobe are no longer developing flash for mobile devices as apple predicted would happen & most websites have moved away from flash anyway as its outdated software.
In my view the majority of companies that develop & make good apps wont if they don't get paid so I don't mind paying for apps if they are good,everyone seems to want everything for nothing nowadays. Would you go to work everyday for nothing, No ? So why should they ?
Each to their own I love my iPad hardly use my computer nowadays