IPods use iOS and this uses a modified Android operating system called fire os. Android and fire os have better apps, cheaper. Only one company makes Apple. Androids are made or used by a lot of different people. Samsung, htc, lg, amazon, tracfone etc. So you get to have a bigger pool of devices. Android os is free in that you can customize it to the way you like it. It mulitasks better. There are more free apps and games on Android than there are on iOS. Sometimes ports of the same apps that carried a price tag on iOS are free on Android.