Folks who pay $1K for an iPhone have to put up with some extractive, authoritarian software nonsense, but they get a lot of what they pay for when it comes to hardware.
Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung Semi, and Google OTOH...woof. The very latest, very-top-end parts (Snapdragon X Elite and Dimensity 9400) are maybe worth the cost (finally)...but the rest of the market? Ouch.