Honestly, while I've been impressed with Android's quick development (going from being pretty consumer unfriendly with 1.5, to being much much better with 2.1) I don't see the appeal in Android as a non-phone.

As a phone, I think a case can be made for a platform that is well integrated but limiting. I don't need my toaster to run Mutt, so I'm content with it not being open and extensible. But...

Once I get past the utility of a phone, any computing device other than that (like a tablet, or a netbook), I find Android to be much less compelling.

This forum is predominantly made up of people who enjoy tinkering, who want their device to do whatever it is they think it should be able to do (not what the manufacturer thinks it should do, or the carrier). That is a powerful paradigm.