Sorry but Gingerbread is going to annihilate the iPad when it comes out.
I assume you're talking about the iPad 3 in 2012. See, Froyo (2.2) has been out for about 9 months now and look how many Android users are even on it.
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
Just barely over half and that threshold was just crossed at the holidays meaning it's probably due to new devices, not upgrades to the OS. The rate of adoption for new versions of the Android OS is glacial by comparison to iOS (IIRC, Apple reported that half of their users were already on iOS 4.0 within a month of its release.)
So, for Android 3.0 to "annihilate" iOS, it's going to have to be ridiculously forward-looking and be able to compete with whatever Apple will be putting out in 2012.