Comment Re:Apple has won (Score 1) 224
Not quite sure that analogy works, because they have vendor subsidies helping to keep the price down.
And of course, as usual, it needs saying that Apple don't care that Android has more market share. Firstly because they are making most of the money in the market, and secondly because they cannot increase their market share anyway, because their product is selling as fast as they can make it.
As for your specific requirements, Steve Jobs agrees with you. He's made it very clear: there are some people who do not want a curated experience on their phone, and those people should get an Android device instead. (He would caution you to be careful, because not all Android phones are as open as you think, but he completely gets that iOS devices are not for you.)