Awwww shut up and quit your whining.
Windows Phone was a completely viable contender for a mobile device OS.
As someone who was forced to use it by his "Microsoft Everywhere" IT department (yeah, hows *that* working out for you now, guys. Boo fucking hoo, you can't force your users to use IE anymore) I actually found it quite a decent OS.
If it could have boasted the apps of Android/Apple, it would have been perfect.
Microsofts ludicrous insistence that very increment required a new app is what killed that.
I am annoyed because the lack of an alternative non-Apple alternative has effectively gifted the mass mobile market to Google. And nobody wants that.