This all started with Apple when they increased the price of the iPhone 10 by $200. I told my friend at the time that it will make all other phones go up in price, and it did. I put it down to Apple company greed, they knew they had enough zombies to get away with it. Smart phones have almost become necessary and I believe will become totally necessary in the next few years. Banks and governments are moving in that direction.I think an iPhone Pro Max cost about $400 to build, added cost for iPhone propaganda which is big in the US. That can only add $100 to $150 a phone. Tim Cook when asked why he thought $1000 for an iPhone was good and people would buy them, he said, "Most people buy them on credit, and payments are spread over two years"I think Tim Cook getting bonuses of $1 billion dollars is excessive.

Everything I know about being scammed, I learned from attempting to be scammed.

If it was propaganda it was quite muted, the actual comments on the phone were basically 'it looks pretty and you say it's good but I haven't tried it so who knows'. The comments about sanctions seemed a bit more suspect, but obviously they'd have been asked about that and I can believe some people would have those views (my own views are similar in fact). What probably did happen is that China Daily only showed the positive responses – it probably got some negative ones as well. Which I guess kind of makes it propaganda, but is also the sort of practice that lots of media all over the world is guilty of.

Motorola really knows how to make good affordable phones. Love the design and build quality

Had one - great phone! Gave it to my sister when her Huawei mate 10 reached end of life (also a great phone) and she is still using it daily and says it works great! OnePlus makes very good phones. You will not go wrong if you try them out.

"you will have to purchase an additional 3.0 USB-C Apple cable"I don't know if I should laugh or just feel sorry for people still giving money to such greedy companies that obviously care only about money and zero about their customers.