Why is the iphone 5 (& even the iphone 4) so expensive?

[Jack]

You mainly pay all that money because of the brand, Apple.

It's like Dominoes Pizza or Nike clothing, they are popular brands and feel like they can charge anything for it, and people will pay the money for them.

But I must admit, I prefer Apple to any other company for my phones, tablets etc. I don't quite get other devices, like previously I had a HTC Wildfire and it was just so slow and so unreliable, so therefore now I got an iPhone 5 and I have to say I am really pleased with it.
I got an iPad a few months before and I am massively into that too, I was playing with a Samsung Galaxy Tab in HMV just last week and it was really slow and unresponsive.

People with BlackBerry phones, as much as I would say the BlackBerry Operating System is pretty fast, it can fail with a lot of people often, but I do quite like BlackBerry.

I would get an iPhone if I were you to be honest, I don't think you will look back!