hmm I don't understand why the price is high.
If you compare a samsung note 8 vs iPhone X, iPhone X is cheaper.
First the hardware build quality, is much higher than Samsung, the CPU and GPU of the phone are much much stronger in real life test and benchmarks.
Apple works on its own Operation System, that cost, Samsung gets it ready from google and tweaks it a bit.
Every iPhone works excellent for at least 5 years.
iPhone X has AR technologies that no other phones has, are technologies no other company has, apple has develop even an API for it.
All this things cost billions.. How a note 8 phone isn't overpriced if you think how old technologies it use and samsung actually spent zero money for software
I can tell I'm a huge Apple fun because every time I tried android platform I find out that the may have higher numbers, like ram, CPU cores, pixels but are all in numbers only, not in real life.
I found in youtube a compare of an old iPhone 6 vs a Galaxy 8 and iPhone 6 was dramatically faster than Galaxy , and I was like... WHAAATT??