Your <5 year old phone is very capable and could definitely handle it.
They just want you to think it’s more advanced and more difficult to render, rather than a deliberate performance degradation to make you want to upgrade.
The iphone 3gs could render infinity blade. Don’t let apple fool you into believing a fragment shader is too heavy for a device that came out a decade later.
Your <5 year old phone is very capable and could definitely handle it.
They just want you to think it’s more advanced and more difficult to render, rather than a deliberate performance degradation to make you want to upgrade.
The iphone 3gs could render infinity blade. Don’t let apple fool you into believing a fragment shader is too heavy for a device that came out a decade later.