the android os is upgraded much more frequently, but that’s not the whole of the story. Only apple makes apple devices. Apple does know what models there are running the apple os.
I don’t even know myself - is gingerbread (2.3) officially out? or is that low number the froyo number?
There are a lot of android tablets out there, right now, being sold, that aren’t being sold with 2.2 with flash 10.1 on them. Often, these tablets cost less than $100. They might not be upgradable to 2.2, or to 3.0. But, again, they cost less than $100. I am not arguing that these android 1.6 tablets are better than the ipad. But they do have functionality, and they, again, cost less than $100.
And I wasn’t really arguing so much that Android as an OS isn’t useful/good or an Android phone isn’t.
But they are frequently described as on par with the Apple iPhone, and I don’t think that is all the story. Because Apple controls the universe of hardware, they have a much easier upgrade path. Android phones will be much more like the PC world, where they are cheaper, do nice useful things, but are not easily upgraded.
I don’t believe they will maintain their value like iPhones (or iPad or iPod Touch) either, because of the difficulty of upgrade.