You said they are "restricted" so why is it that you dont have any need to jail break?That was the first thing I did, since I also felt the same about Apple products.
Plus you can get cracked free apps. Lots of useful stuff. Such as the "unlimited skips" on Pandora which I find to be VERY handy. As well as "MewSeek" which enables you to download music onto your phone, and move it to your ipod. I just found those two this morning actually. Uh, and the 5 icon dock is handy so I can keep my phone, safari, messages, email and ipod together.
Theres a few handy things for someone who wants it