I get the feeling that people without an Iphone are more hung up on its role as a status symbol than those who own one.
I think it's more down to the bizarro smugness of their owners than their desirability. There are plenty of other phones that cost just as much.
Have you ever met someone (and I don't mean online) who owns an iPhone?
All I ever hear is people calling iPhone owners smug, but in my opinion it's the Android owners that are smug!

Yes. They were pleased with their choices and I applaud it. I didn't applaud spending ten minutes listening to them trying to convert me. I'm a neither person at the moment.
Which means you're supporting Darth Vader and The Evil Empire. People who bitch about apple now are either children or amnesiacs. It was reeeeaaally crappy when we were forced to deal with Microsoft products.
These days I'm a 10 yr old Nokia person.