Your phone doesn't have the latest OS because your device manufacturer isn't giving it to you. "You didn't buy it from Google, so it's your own fault" is proba

Your phone doesn't have the latest OS because your device manufacturer isn't giving it to you. "You didn't buy it from Google, so it's your own fault" is probably not a great marketing tactic for the platform. Android is, in several ways, dependent on the goodwill and word-of-mouth promotion of people who care about things like getting their device's OS upgraded within a couple years of when the new OS is released. Losing that goodwill (which is surprisingly difficult when we consider all the different ways Google's basically said "fuck you" to the people who promoted Android for them) would probably be a major blow for the platform.