> We know because this exact strategy works just fine on Apple's other computer platform, the Mac

And Apple sells around 20 million Macs a year and 250 Million+ iPhones/iPads. It’s not exactly a mass market product with around 10% market share or less.

> The future on a long timescale may not be so nice. Were this to change, you don't easily have a say in alternative software.

In the long term your phone will be useless as a phone. Right now, the 2012 iPhone is the oldest phone that you can connect to modern cell phone networks as older protocols get turned off.

How much software do you really have that’s iOS only or that you would have to buy again if you wanted to choose Android.

But the answer is really not that hard. If you don’t like Apple’s “walled garden”, buy an Android like 85% of the world.