[matthewfcarlson]

I think this person has no idea how much work goes into bring a product up. It's an incredible amount of work and time that goes into it. And that's with code from Intel/AMD/Qualcomm + reference designs. Designing the silicon and the board and the firmware in under a few years is absolutely ridiculous. To do so in 8 months is ludicrous.

[mixmastamyk]

He's no slouch, and Apple has been working on this for a decade+. My guess is a resource shortage prevened moving faster.