Not surprising. It’s not as if companies only start on the next version once the current one is out. Things like this need planning years in advance. I think I heard on the ATP podcast that Apple are already planning and working on what the M7 will be.
Just because they are testing the M4/M5 doesn’t mean it’s ready, or can be fabricated at scale for an acceptable cost just yet.
M5 lol. We ain’t even at M3 yet.
It’s like when I read a book in the 90s that explained planned obsolescence in a child-friendly way.
When should have we stopped developing new processors and computing architectures? I just want to make sure that we never improve upon existing tools to avoid that pesky planned obsolescence.
Pentium? Core Duo? Core i7? AMD Ryzen? Apple M1?
Never, but the yearly iterations are there to keep people upgrading. Same thing with cars.
Some people need the newest hottest thing when they could upgrade every 5-7 years (10-15 in the case of cars) and be fine and companies cash in on that.
Nothing remarkable about putting placeholders for future products there. I’m sure iPhone 15 16 17 have all been registered on reddit Lemmy etc. as land grabs. this is no different, just put the stems in for the server.
