Yawn. It's almost 2018. A flagship android phone will work as consistently as an iPhone. For half the price.
One other thing to consider is market saturation. Apple has sold something like just over a billion of them over the past 10 years, and lord knows how many of the various other companies' smartphones have sold since then. Eventually there is going to be a peak where people get tired of getting the "latest and greatest" in a fad/boom market. Are there really that many folks shunning the iPhone 8 for the iPhone X, which will cause a rush on the stores? We'll see!
Best phone to date was my Huwea Honor 6plus cost £200 depth of field twin lense camera, good battery life, prefer it to my small none edge S7 big time. 5'xs that for very little better in some cases worse, especially in a case, all just a glass screen and pick a case you like. Atleast android I can Torrent, and havent got to use Itunes, sure its great for Mac users who are super anal,but doesnt work the PC way so clunky at best for normal people.