yeah Apple can add or delete products from line up at will and they have switched CPU architectures in the past as well ( they used to run IBM power PC ) so they definitely can't be relied on.
or rather they can be relied on to produce a great laptop but not anything else and you can't know what CPU the laptop will use either.
apple is for people who need a $4,000 laptop machined from a single slab of aluminum ( oh no sorry, i meant to say "aluminium" ) to answer e-mails from starbucks.
then again we have a 9,000 lbs, 1,000 horsepower Hummer EV so that 5'2" women can have means of getting to their Zumba class two blocks down a suburban road without a single crack in the pavement.