Gone are the days when AT&T was always the premium operator partner for an iPhone launch. This year, Verizon took star billing at the launch of the iPhone 12 – admittedly the lowest-key iPhone debut ever. Apple continued to split its flagship range into two families – the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max – but the most interesting features were the wide range of spectrum combinations supported, and a Lidar option that provides application developers with some new options for camera and environment mapping capabilities. Many operators have been talking, for at least a year, about how a 5G iPhone would transform their business cases, but when the day came, there was none of the fevered anticipation and excited…