Just because you don’the desire them, many do. I can’t possibly control your desires.
Desire is indicated by sales at a higher price
Some of these phones are markably higher
You do realize you're talking to someone with a degree in Economics who is also a retired corporate CEO, don't you? Apparently not. . . but you're wrong.
You're trying to tell me something that is patently untrue when these "higher priced" products don't sell for the manufacturer's asking price and have to be drastically discounted to attract any buyers at all. In other words, dila, desire has to be manufactured and then the price where that desire matches the buyers' willingness to part with his money has to be found. In sheer numbers, nothing matches the numbers of consumers who desire Apple's products. That's an incontrovertible fact. These other makers are merely wishing that high-price hype will convince consumers their products must be worth the asking price.
The value very seldom meets the hype and they either drop their pricing or go out of business with a large inventory of unsold, expensive product on their hands. Samsung dropped the high prices of their Galaxy S6 and Edge by almost half from their introductory asking price within four months because those products did not generate the desire required to sell in sufficiently large numbers to make a profit. Apple has seldom had that problem. . . but they did bulldoze thousands of unsold $10,000 Lisa Computers into a deep landfill in an undisclosed location in the late 1980s. Atari did the same with tens of thousands of ill conceived unsold ET video game cartridges.
You're welcome to your opinions, but not to your own interpretation of the laws of economics. For your spin to be true, those products have to sell in sufficient quantities to demonstrate a large, overwhelming demand that supports the asking price so that there are more consumers wanting the product than the supply can provide. They just don't do that, not even close. Gimmicks never do.