You're also paying for iOS. Remember... Apple builds their
own software. Thousands of engineers and whatnot.
The other guys must rely on Google to provide an operating system. But once you're one of 100 Android vendors... there's not much separating you from the others. Commoditization and whatnot. They can't charge too much because someone else is selling a very similar product. It's actually quite tough to be an Android vendor.
Apple doesn't have that problem. They make a unique product... iOS phones. But if they charged too much for them... no one would buy them. Clearly that's not the case. Apple just sold 47 million smartphones in 3 months.
You're right... it's silly for a consumer to brag about a company's profits. But hey... people gotta have a hobby.