I've never owned any apple products (still don't, personally) so I stayed away from the flame wars. However, after fooling around with the iPad I'm coming to the conclusion that:
1. on Android/Windows products you can do practically anything you want, however it rarely works 100%
2. on apple products you are VERY limited to what you can do, but what you can do, works 100%
Combine these two and you have a winner. I know, easy