The last time I recall the metaphor of the slow, lumbering giant turning around to - at long last - deliver the dreaded fatal blow was when the internet appeare

The last time I recall the metaphor of the slow, lumbering giant turning around to - at long last - deliver the dreaded fatal blow was when the internet appeared and they eventually responded by delivering enough versions of IE (culminating in version 7) to dominate the market for web browsers. In order to do so, they had to leverage the ubiquity of their desktop operating system, which they then used to lock in web developers to a broken implementation (a pain that we're still feeling to day every time we need to ensure stuff works in IE6) so they they could further solidify the dominance of Windows, which has has always been their one, true, and unwavering goal: "Windows Everywhere". How could they do this with phones & tablets? It's not like they can just bundle a phone or tablet with every desktop PC that gets sold, thereby leveraging their existing channel like they did with IE.