let's face it, we all are victims of inferior products. Whether it be the iPhone or any other device. People who choose to use the iPhone do so like any other person who chooses to use any other device, we have them because we want to have them. If you feel comfortable with your phone, flaws and all, it's what you choose to have for a mobile device. Sure there are some phones that are better than other phones and some have fewer flaws than other, then again some have more flaws than others.
iPhone is in a class of its own IMO. I dare to say that the iPhone does tend to have more loyal followers than other phones. Sure we have lots of HTC users, the only difference I see is that HTC makes more than one model of phone while Apple only makes one, the iPhone. Yes the iPhone has different versions/generations, it's still only branded as an iPhone.
I choose not to use an iPhone for two reason and two reasons only
1. I'd rather not own any Apple products
2. Sprint doesn't have the iPhone
More so number 1 than 2 because even if the iPhone ever made it to Sprint, I still wouldn't use one.
Basically what I'm trying to say here is that people choose to use the phone they want because that is the phone they selected out of all the phones in the market. We all have our reasons for using the phone we choose to purchase and generally stick by the phone because we chose that particular phone
With all that said, I think we as consumers generally settle for inferior products all the time, we just hope we choose the product that is less inferior to the other product we didn't choose.
