It depends if you want to spend your life working with the iPad, or tweaking Android so it works properly or spend time stripping out malware and viruses... Apples so-called closed system has it's detractors, (see below) but in the real world it's a huge advantage. (ANdroid is no more open than iOS in reality - Google still pulls the strings)
The "paradigm" is that each data file is contained solely within each app (with some exceptions, which often don't work properly) and this can give rise to some really irritating situations.
Please give an example - if you mean sandboxing there's some really good reasons for it...
One has to appreciate that it is basically a media player / web browser and such, not a computer.
What an utter load of tosh...
But because most IOS apps are severely crippled functionally
