[ZainRiz]

First I'm hearing about nerfed iphones, but if true this sounds like a reasonable decision from a business perspective.

They wouldn't want customers worrying about whether they got the better qualcomm iPhone X or the slower intel iPhone X.

Apple could have chosen to make everything with the faster qualcomm chips, but they prob wanted to derisk their supply chain by diversifying onto two chip manufacturers (and perhaps play them against each other for negotiating power)

Either ways, once you arrive a the result that you need to chip manufacturers making chips for the same phones, you need to make sure your customers have practically the same experience regardless of the underlying hardware they end up with

Consistency is key