Like I mentioned before, waiting for updates on android can be a pain. Apple did a good job as they have their own ecosystem of software and hardware. Google' Android is a pain to update. Updates are mainly dependent on hardware vendors. Even Motorola whom Google bought over does not provide promptly updates.
While many people would compare between Apple IOS and Google, Amazon's kindle is also a real competitor to Google. In fact, there is a report saying there Google main rival could be Amazon and not Apple. There is truth to it. Amazon has an arsenal of products on their website to search. If anyone would like to buy something, he/she could be searching on amazon first. The key word here is "buy". Amazon is not a search engine but for product searching, Amazon is the one of the popular website. With Amazon' ecosystem of ebooks, apps store and ereaders, Amazon is looking attractive for consumers to stay on their website. Amazon will be launching their 2nd gen of Kindle Fire soon. The focus is on the hardware and not really on the OS. I know Kindle uses a modified version of android. I am not sure if Amazon is going to "update" it to ICS. Frankly speaking, does it matters? Any new features or updates will more likely to be push down seamless just as Apple devices, as Amazon has control their own hardware. Although Kindle does not have the OS hype, I would personally want to get one for my daily web surfing, email and ebooks simply because, it serves my basic purpose well enough for it's price. For others functions like GPS and others, I can do it on my phone.
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