You can get older models for about the same price as cheap Android phones - i'd much rather use a 5 or 5S than anything by Kyocera, for instance. I made the mistake of buying a cheap Andriod phone for $40 when I could have gotten a 4S for 50. The 4S would have had a superior camera, security and even typing performance.

Currently I have a iPhone 6 that i got for 200, no contract. Seems pretty affordable to me. In Liberia, maybe not, but I imagine there are millions of iPhone 4s they would be welcome to take off our hands.

Yeah, but this works only as long as only few people want those :)

I suppose that would be true about $40 android phones too? I think Apple would be glad to sell however many iPhone 5s's for cheap because that's basically what the iphone SE is.