You must be American because in Europe the iPhone is the odd lot and in Eastern Europe it's even odd-er.
And having a Samsung is actually considered high-status, let alone one of the S-series :)
Xiaomi is very popular since it used to offer about the same hardware power as a Samsung at half the price if not lower, so owning a Xiaomi flagship, albeit costing half the price of a Samsung S-series is still viewed with admiration. Meaning it's a good phone with decent performance, although it has it's shares of bug like all Chinese made stuff. But you tell to yourself "well at least I paid half price".
And then there's the Xiaomi mid range which also has decent performance although ,guaranteed, with a lot more annoying bugs like: switching the camera from photo to video takes 10-20 seconds so if you wanna film evidence of Bigfoot, make sure you anticipate it's brief appearance by at least half a minute in advance. And updating the software is only guaranteed to break even more stuff while almost surely doing nothing for the existing bugs if not making them worse.
But then Xiaomi mid range is still flagship level of performance and reliability compared to the phones owned by the a lot of people, often adults with not so great jobs and / or their children, who are happy to at least have a phone, compared to a vast number of kids (usually smaller age) who have none of their own and look in admiration and envy at the ones showing a Chinese clone with the strangest names ("FreeYond", "Bobbary" etc).
I actually had a period when I tried to see what's the lowest cost one can pay for a phone or tablet and still be able to use it. Noticed there's an abrupt exponential degradation from the price of a Xiaomi mid-range although the prices enter saturation region quickly. Just cannot manufacture them cheaper, so all you pay is the hardware essentially, but then God-help us with whatever software runs on them and the compatibility with the hardware. One tablet I bought for less than $100 had some 12 nasty bugs right of the bat and eventually at some point the battery exploded (for real!).
So Samsung S20? That's so high-status around here that people mostly assume you're showing off when you buy that :)
And having a Samsung is actually considered high-status, let alone one of the S-series :)
Xiaomi is very popular since it used to offer about the same hardware power as a Samsung at half the price if not lower, so owning a Xiaomi flagship, albeit costing half the price of a Samsung S-series is still viewed with admiration. Meaning it's a good phone with decent performance, although it has it's shares of bug like all Chinese made stuff. But you tell to yourself "well at least I paid half price".
And then there's the Xiaomi mid range which also has decent performance although ,guaranteed, with a lot more annoying bugs like: switching the camera from photo to video takes 10-20 seconds so if you wanna film evidence of Bigfoot, make sure you anticipate it's brief appearance by at least half a minute in advance. And updating the software is only guaranteed to break even more stuff while almost surely doing nothing for the existing bugs if not making them worse.
But then Xiaomi mid range is still flagship level of performance and reliability compared to the phones owned by the a lot of people, often adults with not so great jobs and / or their children, who are happy to at least have a phone, compared to a vast number of kids (usually smaller age) who have none of their own and look in admiration and envy at the ones showing a Chinese clone with the strangest names ("FreeYond", "Bobbary" etc).
I actually had a period when I tried to see what's the lowest cost one can pay for a phone or tablet and still be able to use it. Noticed there's an abrupt exponential degradation from the price of a Xiaomi mid-range although the prices enter saturation region quickly. Just cannot manufacture them cheaper, so all you pay is the hardware essentially, but then God-help us with whatever software runs on them and the compatibility with the hardware. One tablet I bought for less than $100 had some 12 nasty bugs right of the bat and eventually at some point the battery exploded (for real!).
So Samsung S20? That's so high-status around here that people mostly assume you're showing off when you buy that :)