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.
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.
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.