I said "that they want you to buy". The ones that they want you to buy are listed at https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare

I said "that they want you to buy". The ones that they want you to buy are listed at https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/ https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/. Go there and look at the phones that they list. Can you find the cheaper phone? Yes. Its specs don't compare to the https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s8-64gb--unlocked--sm-g950uzkaxaa/?cid=us_pla_google-8875160598-cam=US_IMECOM_PLA_Buy_MobilePhones&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIt8KD6eXy3gIVD1mGCh3eeQijEAQYAiABEgJ93_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s8-... for the same price. As for iPhones lasting longer, it certainly used to be true. I went out of my way to buy Apple products for close to 20 years, in large part because of the reliability that they gave. However reliability of Apple devices seems like it has gone downhill in the last few years. Look at https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/ https://ifixit.org/blog/10229/macbook-pro-keyboard/ for example. My anecdotal experience fits. In the last 5 years I personally bought 3 new phones. One died 3 days out of warranty, one is the phone I described above, and the other is still being used by my son. My wife switched after her phone had reliability problems, and my step-son's switch came after his phone just died.