I'm not an Apple fan either, mostly because I hate what Steve Jobs is, and I hate the Applephile attitude that whatever Apple does is great. Meh! But I dislike Google and Android even more, mostly because Android is too clunky and the apps are mainly developed by non-professional developers and have no quality control mechanisms required. The result is that anyone can create an app, the app can be terrbly written, yet Google could care less. So to this date I've not met an Android tablet I like.

At least the iPad apps have to pass quality controls to be included in iTunes. And the iPad does what it does very elegantly. It is a long ways from being a true enterprise capable tablet with standardized ports and file system though.

As far as the Xoom having few apps, when the iPhone and iPod touch were first released there were few apps for them too. It took a while for developers to create them, but eventually they came along. As memory serves, it took at least 6 months after the touch was released before Apple even allowed apps to be developed for it and released the SDK. Even now with the new iPad 2 released there are still quite a few iPhone apps that have not been optimized for iPads.