I suspect they will try and release base and pro chips at the same time so the don’t have a situation (again) where the base Mx is faster than Mx-1 but the Mx-1 Pro (& Max) is faster than the Mx. current gen.
For some with the VP yes to be the first on the block. Cough Cough that's not me of course :). My colleague has his foldable for both personal use and development purposes. We work. on an app with a couple million downloads on Android. He added support for the foldable because IIRC our...
A colleague of mine has a foldable Samsung. When it is folding it is a double think long skinny form factor. Unless Apple has some kind o f unique take on this I am with you.
This hypothesis is probably more on the Vision Pro side of things but I think Apple believes at some point some device or combination of devices will supplant the phone as our main computing device and Apple wants to be sure they are there to have that covered and not end up on the losing side...