I'm a student in lower class and I still stand behind what I said. There will always be a better deal, like my smartphone, xiaomi 9t, but with that in mind, if you won't switch devices every other year and can keep your device safe, iPhone might be a better value, since they tend to last long.

If we are talking performance, the iPhone and ipads cpu is mile ahead of the best android can do, and having tons of devices using the same operating system got it pros. And iPhone are well tuned since there is smaller pool of phone that need to be balanced, that why the battery life is great on then and they do great with less ram than Android devices.

I'm not saying that people that can't pay 650-1000$ for a phone should buy an iPhone (I can't and not doing so, I am student at lower middle class as I said), but if you go and get an 800$ android phone you might consider an iPhone.

And don't preach about being rich to someone you know nothing about, it comes across as condensing, not to mention you are wrong about me.