The people who buy them are usually normies and the normies usually don't drop 1000 on a phone. They use a monthly payment plan so they don't care about the total price.
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That's even worse though.
I have a 15 pro max on monthly installments but I just bought my sister a 15 pro outright.
iPhones are simply better than android. I love android, but for what you normally do with a phone, iOS is far superior. Android is buggy, vulnerable, and it spies on you. iOS doesn’t have these issues.
Mind you, I have two rooted and degoogled androids with lineageos, and a laptop with Linux in dual boot, I’m no normie.