I will still stick to what I said some time ago.
As years go by, it's going to be harder and harder and harder for anyone to justify high priced phones and tablets.
Less expensive models from other brands will get better and better, year after year, closing the gap between low end and high end.
You only have to look now.
iPad from 5 years ago against some other cheap tablet around that time, the cheap one was utter garbage.
Same with phones.
5 years on, and 5 years is nothing.
You can get some amazing phones and tablets, far far better than Apple's product were 5 years ago. But for a fraction of Apples prices today.
This won't stop.
Apple, and other will hit technical walls, and year after year, Apple's next model's improvement over the previous model will get less and less.
At the same time the cheap models will get closer and closer.
More and more people will realise, hey, this cheap model is amazing.
It's 95% as good as, say Apple's model for 1/4 the price.
It's inevitable this will happen.
Just with DVD Players, Microwaves, Washing machines, Laser Printers, there will always be a market for the very high end items at very high end prices. But that market will shrink and shrink and shrink, as more and more people realise the cheaper models are by then really good and so much less expensive.