I doubt I would get the same quality and reliability. Good Android phones are equally expensive and it is very hard to know which are actually good without doing research. As well I had bad experience with some Google Pixel model.
That is always the excuse people bring up to ignore the point. You can spend $1000 on a fancy chefs knife, or you can spend $30 on an Ikea chefs knife. Sure, the $1000 knife is higher quality. Yet, millions of people are still doing just find with the Ikea knife.
A cheap car will still get you to/from work over an expensive "higher quality" car.
Lots of families don't have money to buy an iPhone for every member of the family but do have enough to buy an Android for every member of the family.
