That claim doesn't hold water. If people doing unpaid community support can produce custom ROMs for older devices that are no longer supported, Google can supp

That claim doesn't hold water. If people doing unpaid community support can produce custom ROMs for older devices that are no longer supported, Google can support older devices too. Not to mention the ability of any company to make demands of their suppliers. If Google can demand device makers not use a fork of Android, they can demand suppliers offer support for their products. Google simply doesn't care, because the customers they care about are the advertisers, not device purchasers.