Maybe the Android Marketplace is "better" than the App Store because anybody can put an app up there, but the apps certainly aren't better, not by a long shot.
I think it's really hard to call one store "better" than the other. I'm an App Store developer, but I can see advantages to both:
App Store: Far more apps (and thus a stronger platform, attracts more users, attracts more developers). The review process generally controls quality (ignoring taste, for example fart apps), in the sense of no virus or battery drainers or network abusers or completely unusable apps. This is a plus and I think it's severely under-appreciated.
Android: No review process means you can potentially get any kind of app. Alternative app stores (or you can download right from the web). Ever-improving number of apps in the store (it's lagging behind App Store but quickly catching up).
So it really depends on what you're after and what you value. I don't think it's really fair to for the article to call one store "better" than the other.
I can participate as a seller in the Apple App store. I cannot in the Android Marketplace.
Unless and until Canada is a first-class country on the Android marketplace, I won't even look at developing for Android.
(Granted, I probably won't do much with it even after that, because I hate Java with a passion and don't want the nasty performance hit that alternative languages currently have on Dalvik, but that's a different argument.)
