I still have my old iPhones for the exact same reasons as you. I respect their amazing build quality and what they do, they're just not for me. I don't hate the phones, I just don't feel that they're for me. As with the Mustang, I view them to be the same thing reprocessed and re-offered over and over. When Ford finally killed the SN95 and offered the S197 chassis in 2005, I was fanatically excited. Extremely long runs aren't unusual with cars though, but it makes the iPhone a bit of an aberration in the technology industry.
Another thing that caused me to give up on the iPhone was the iTunes interface. It is worthless to me; I prefer to just plug my phone in and drag/drop files like I do to my external hard drive.
What REALLY irks me about the iPhone that makes me less than amenable to their products is the fanboyism; people who are fanatically in favor of it in spite of all logical arguments that the iPhone is in fact *GASP!* just another smart phone, not God's own gift to technology.
Prime example-