Your account is true, and I'm not disputing it or that Google took nefarious actions here, but the OP's thesis is that Windows Phone was doomed as a platform ye

Your account is true, and I'm not disputing it or that Google took nefarious actions here, but the OP's thesis is that Windows Phone was doomed as a platform years before even the release of Windows Phone 7, the fist "modern" version that dropped compatibility with Windows Mobile/Windows CE. I think Google could have only employed this strategy against an already failing adversary: they haven't tried the same against the iOS platform.