The US seems to be particularly weird on this. In the UK I know people with iPhones and people with Android phones. The cost of them are usually not that diffe

The US seems to be particularly weird on this. In the UK I know people with iPhones and people with Android phones. The cost of them are usually not that different, people have stuff like the galaxy flip phones that are 1K+. But everyone uses SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram/etc so this manufactured problem just doesn't exist.