GOT A SURPRISING TEXT FROM THE WIFE which read "I need a new phone." It was only slightly more surprising than her text from 4 months ago ... "Let's get that new car you've been talking about." Both texts were a break with her long-held position on both items which is was to hold on to both then-owned items until they broke. So, being the dutiful husband that I am, her text wish was my command.
Off I went to the phone store. After obtaining the object of the wife's desire-an iPhone 12 Mini-I explored the possibility of my desire to acquire the new iPhone 12 Pro Max. That desire was driven solely by the introduction of a new/bigger sensor(s?) (physical size not more mp). An improvement that moves the iPhone camera module closer to being a "real" camera...or maybe even a "serious" camera.
In any event, the possiibility of acquiring the 12 Pro Max advanced into the category of actually acquiring the 12 Pro Max. As a result of my visit to the phone store, not only did the wife and I have our phone desires satiated, but so did my good friend, who accompanied me to the phone store.
While my friend did not seem to harbor any desire for a new phone, as I was faced with making a decsion, re: to trade in my 11 Pro Max or pay off the balance of payments on it and keep it, he piped up with the idea that he could pay off the balance and then he could could keep my "old" but, nevertheless, new-to-him phone. Sounded good to me, so....
....everybody seems to be-whatever their individual phone desires-iPhone happy.