We have reached a point in which huge steps in hardware improvements is not a thing, hence my question. Or maybe they can but companies want us to pay money to get the latest OS and new features?
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Can’t directly speak for androids, but iPhones receive the latest iOS updates for as long as the hardware allows, and the breaking point is when new hardware is added to new iPhones such as sensors (touchid, faceid), after that catering for the older devices isn’t worth it since they would need two separate iOS versions to distribute, I imagine with Androids this is the same, no reason to add support for older devices when the same software can’t be used.
Sure features can be turned on and off, but adding more constraints to the software decreases performance, and then you get comments “they are INTENTIONALLY making my phone slower”… to literally prevent it from crashing. So just dropping support makes the most financial sense and PR sense.
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