However, what is clear via Google’s statement is that the company intended to limit access to the product for the Windows Phone platform due strictly to performance reasons. This means that the company, yesterday, did not act in a way that was expressly designed to suppress Windows Phone viability as a platform. - Google says Maps redirect on Windows Phone was a product decision, and will be removed - The Next Web

Breaking down the Google Maps – Windows Phone issue | Tom Verhoeff So what does this mean?Google’s own statement suggests that not supporting WebKit is the problem here, however the experiments mentioned show that there doesn’t appear to be any real problems. Combine this fact with some other recent development like Google removing ActiveSync support for Gmail users and Google still blocking a fully featured YouTube app for Windows Phone. It just shows that Google is just mocking Windows Phone and its users, something TheNextWeb also realized. It’s just another chapter in the ecosystem war.