&gt;self-confidence to not buy an expensive Apple smartphone like your peers but a reasonable priced one from Huawai &#x2F;&#x2F;<p>Huawei aren&#x27;t a cheap brand, they are compared to Apple, for sure, but for me it&#x27;s do I buy a name brand product from Acer, LG, Huawei or do I get a no-name item. My current TV is a Polaroid(!), it&#x27;s a white-label product with the same internals as Panasonics, Toshibas and LGs. It&#x27;s this or nothing. Bought less than a year ago I&#x27;ve already had to have it opened up for fault-finding. More expensive products are definitely better, but not the next level up (the cheaper Toshibas, etc.) but the level above that - which is more by model but I&#x27;d probably include Samsung there. It really is just like the leather boots analogy.<p>Another instance of this for me is trousers. I basically have 2 pairs of trousers for daily wear, one is a pair of jeans. I get supermarket own-brand (UK) jeans, they all wear out at the crotch, the stitching comes apart after about 6-9months. £10 a pair (or less if I catch a sale). Now I could buy more expensive ones that are better made, there&#x27;s an apparent variation in longevity even now Sainsburys &gt; Tesco &gt; ASDA. More expensive trousers - in the past - have never split at the crotch seam. The problem is that the more expensive ones that are still in my price range seem equally likely to fail early.<p>High price doesn&#x27;t indicate high quality but I&#x27;ve found very few products for a relatively low price that weren&#x27;t low quality; often atrocious designs that could be so much better using the same materials too.