> You’re equivalent of saying the Intel delays were a success too.

If Trump nuked TSMC's production lines the day before M1 went to production, and the production lines came back 3 years later, would Apple ship the M1 on it? Or, the M3?

As you point out, it makes 0 sense to ship the M1.

If it makes 0 sense, why project that idea onto me?

When faced with a contradiction, first, check your premises. (and read your interlocutor's, "It's not like it launched an old product" obviates your claim that I'd also applaud Intel's delays)

> As you point out, it makes 0 sense to ship the M1.

But that's what happened. Go check the benchmarks. Clearly you haven't. That Snapdragon X that got released (1st gen) was way off the mark.

> When faced with a contradiction

When faced with a hallucination...

You switched your claim from "they released the same chip they would have released 3 years earlier and you're stupid for thinking that was a good idea" to "I thought it was slow [because I'm hyperfocused on Apple competition and forgot the perf vs. Intel/AMD]".