"Supposedly?" Because it happened around the time of layoffs and widespread cutbacks including degradation of microkitchens, closing of eateries, and cuts in benefits. The department I was at was cut to 1 intern amongst an org of ~300. I asked around and a similar situation exists at other megacorps.

It's the classic failure of overshooting cutbacks, driving away talent, and harming future talent acquisition. This is generally an anti-pattern Apple avoids by neither overhiring nor doing layoffs and becoming gunshy with interns and hires. It's quite astute business acumen to avoid megacorporatitis.