Or Apple doesn't have enough TSMC 5nm inventory to make both A14 and it's big-chungus cousin and launch everything at the same time. That would also explain why

Or Apple doesn't have enough TSMC 5nm inventory to make both A14 and it's big-chungus cousin and launch everything at the same time. That would also explain why they launched iPad Air a month before iPhone. The former is a lower-demand product so you could totally launch that one first when yields are lower.