Apple never bought Qualcomm’s CPUs, and I don’t think they ever competed with NVidia. I think it’s just smartphone vendors are seeing a decline in sales; leading to a decline for Qualcomm.
Nowadays everything is stale. There are no killer apps to drive upgrade. A 2020 flagship is still in top condition to handle any apps except 3d games.
Ie. not recession.
Both parties say capitalism is great and inflation exists?
By your logic, those things don’t exist so where’s the problem?
Have you ever considered you’re a paranoid hallucinating the importance and existence of such things?
The only thing which has "dramatically improved" is the reshufling of GUI elements and the passive agressive warnings covering half of the screen which you cannot dismiss.