Honest question: What's the point of putting the most cutting-edge lithography chip, into a smartphone? What apps or functions are people using these days that would need all that cpu power? Sure it slightly improves power consumption for the device, but is it worth it?
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It's probably a mix of better battery life (honestly a huge selling point) and better GPU performance (I suspect this is not that critical for iOS if we look at the bigger picture).