What's the fascination with iPhones?

I seriously don't see why they're popular, all my friends but one have them and most of the fanboys say they're already buying the iPhone 6 regardless of the fact Apple haven't released anything official yet. I have my S3 and it's good as their 5c and 5s'. If the iPhone 6 comes out and its' processor, camera and just the general specs are better I'll buy it but at the minute the iPhone's are inferior to even the older samsung models and yet they're still more popular? Anyone want to tell me why?

The Answer is simple. Apple iPhone is now a Status symbol and in short the name is enough. People who don't even know much about technology etc. Knows that Apple iPhone is good, They don't know what iPhones actually, they only know that if it is iPhone then it will be good.

I was an Apple fanboy myself and I have owned every single iPhone model from First iPhone to iPhone 4S. When I bought S3 I came to know what i was missing and it was like breaking of a long steak of iPhones. I was in love with Android and the freedom I got, unlike iPhones. But still I agree that iPhone has some sort of class, status and a very good feeling which only fanboys can understand but I also think that status is not that required by a techie like me, I want power which android can provide. Android devices are much more superior than iPhones. I bet that iPhone 6 will not even be close to S5 and I'm sure that S4 will be still good in terms of specs than iPhone 6.

I think I've written too much, I'm just writing whatever is coming in my mind. In short people have made iPhone a status symbol and people are not mad after iPhone, they are mad after that symbol. Even today mercedes name is enough to impress anybody in india but many people are still unaware of Audi. So with this statement I mean iPhone is mercedes and S3 is audi. No matter how better audi is than mercedes, rich people still prefer mercedes over audi just because of its name.

An iPhone is indeed a status systems some teens are happy to have an ancient 3gs, some have ask on this forum how to get a fake iPhone cheap, an Apple case to fit other cheaper Android phone.

Some kids "need" to have what "all" the other kids have

Simple