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when I was able to get all tensor powered features on my good old poco f1 I realized how far up their ass these big tech companies are
While you're not wrong, there are some cases where these companies limit things because there are under the hood changes.
I remember a few years back, there was a Nvidia feature exclusive to the new cards, and there was a way to enable it on the old cards, and it ran like shit. Like it made whatever the feature was nearly useless. The new cards had dedicated cores for it.
Just like many, many years ago, you could enable double tap to wake on phones that didn't support it, and you'd see a massive battery drain, because the new SoCs had dedicated low power cores to deal with it.
Not saying that's the case here, but there are times where you can enable these features on other devices, but there's almost always a trade off that normal customers would be pissed off about.
Considering the purpose of Tensor, I'm sure it's a lot faster on phones with tensor chips.
They probably just need time to speed it up for older phones - which is just fine for them because of the business impacts.
I remember this from when Siri was first released. It was only available on the 4S if I remember right, and with a jailbroken device you could backport it since most of the assets and functionality was already there - sans the authentication keys.
It did not work well at all if you force enabled it on an unsupported device.
Or Always on Display, which usually only supports OLED capable devices could be force enabled on LCD devices, at the cost of your battery life.