I was looking for a custom ROM for my current phone, and I came across this. Personally, I think that this is a very misleading comment, and has quite a bit of factual inaccuracies.
I was looking for a custom ROM for my current phone, and I came across this. Personally, I think that this is a very misleading comment, and has quite a bit of factual inaccuracies.
what this guy is saying is uh… a little bit gibberishy.
it is true that hardware capabilities can be insufficient though. if you dont have enough ram, storage or cpu power, as the software gets more complex you can start running into its limits. it takes waaaaaaay more than a couple of years for this to happen.
when it comes to android the reason you don’t get many updates is simply because manufacturers don’t want to spend the time and money to update a device that is usually built with planned obsolescence in mind anyway. getting you to buy a new one is more lucrative to them and very few exceptions exist.
most of the time, if the rom is well made you can get a newer android version on it no problem. my device stops at a11 officially, but im running a13 on it, and it runs much better than stock. i had an a4.4 device i upgraded all the way to a8 before it died.
android is not that resource intensive if you run a lean rom and you can usually get several more years worth of updates on most phones.
one thing you have to be wary about is that these roms are built by the community, so it may or may not be a good rom with everything working in good order, but thats not necessarily because of hardware limitations.