Isn't this the case with a lot of Android devices, regardless of the SoC vendor or device manufacturer? There are tons of devices out there that are stuck on An

Isn't this the case with a lot of Android devices, regardless of the SoC vendor or device manufacturer? There are tons of devices out there that are stuck on Android GB or older, not because of hardware limitations but because of software. Android is not a very stable platform, there's a big code release coming from Google once or twice a year and it's a lot of work to make drivers and other software play nice with the new version. Device manufacturers and SoC vendors have no financial motivation on keeping the software up to date with previous generation devices, the priorities are on shipping new devices. This is the biggest problem I see in the Android ecosystem. Smartphones and tablets reach the end of their life prematurely when you can't use the latest software even if the hardware has capabilities to run it. When I buy a high end device, I expect it to serve me for 5 years or so and stay up to date with the software.