TL;DR
- Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
- The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
- Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.
I’m not singling them out, it just happens to be a thread about Android.
There’s no reason for mobile OS’s to be flaky like this. There’s nothing magic about either that means old stuff can’t be supported. It’s just that trillion dollar corporations apparently can’t afford the resources.
There kind of is, software changes and things need to be updated by comparison, your windows example is a double edged sword, there’s a lot of bloat and Microsoft can’t make changes that might be beneficial on windows because of all the backwards compatability layers and services they generally leave in. It’s good and bad in it’s own way.