But that's not what was being talked about here. Nokia X was low-end handsets running a forked version of Android without Google's services, including the Play

But that's not what was being talked about here. Nokia X was low-end handsets running a forked version of Android without Google's services, including the Play Store. So you're looking at an app selection similar to what Amazon has for the Fire at best, not the full Android ecosystem. And you're not looking at premium devices. Microsoft has no interest in being another second-class Android OEM, competing with all the other companies that are losing to Samsung in that space.