And while we love the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max, we have a massive crush on the iPhone XR. It’s cheaper, puts in a brilliant performance not far off the mark of its bigger siblings ...

Apple's expected — and still distant — fourth generation iPhone SE will effectively be a reworked iPhone XR, the rumor mill suggested on Monday evening — but that's not at all surprising.

(It is too early to underestimate things, though: remember, the iPhone X eventually became Apple's ... I said this was an XR-versus-8 affair. So why, oh why, did I slip in the iPhone XS?