It's not Apple vs Google. Google has a second operating system, Chrome OS, and that team does a very nice job at keeping all the Chromebook up-to-date.

It's one of those old early Android mistakes that were never really fixed. I think the root issue is that they were never even fully acknowledged.

I wrote about this here:

https://dev.to/jmfayard/android-s-billion-dollar-mistake-327...