This makes no sense.
They already tried carrying over the previous year's chip for both the iPhone 14 and 15 and those did not sell well.
Then they fixed it for the iPhone 16, giving it a new chip but a weaker version of it.
Why go back to the old system that clearly didn't work?
It's one thing to restrict them to an entire 4GB of RAM less than the Pro, but to also give an old SoC?
Apple really is getting greedy.
They already tried carrying over the previous year's chip for both the iPhone 14 and 15 and those did not sell well.
Then they fixed it for the iPhone 16, giving it a new chip but a weaker version of it.
Why go back to the old system that clearly didn't work?
It's one thing to restrict them to an entire 4GB of RAM less than the Pro, but to also give an old SoC?
Apple really is getting greedy.