In the world of Apple Silicon, the M series chips are positioned as Mac hardware that filtered down to the mid-to-high-end iPads.
Introducing the M4 on iPad first kind of breaks that illusion. The SOCs are all so closely related anyway, it seems kind of arbitrary that some have an A prefix while others have M.
While they’re at it they could call the next iPhone chip the M4 Mini, M4 Lite, something like that. They won’t if for no other reason than marketing. But it’s interesting to think about.
