^ This.

Exactly what I've been thinking. Nobody but WPCentral seems to be excited about WP8. And even then, it seems forced.

Worse part, there's 7 million - I think that's the last numbers that were given to us - that cannot upgrade to WP8. Instead, they have to settle for WP7.8, which will not have all of the same features and there's no upgrade path.

The curiosity around the N900 and N9 is nothing like it was for the WP7 devices. People wanted to read more about Maemo/MeeGo. What made it different. What hardware was running underneath.

With WP7, everybody knew it was running the same hardware, maybe a tweak to the display and form factor. But the question remained... why would anybody care?

WP8 is going to be same. Why would anybody - reader, enthusiast, geek, early adopter, Nokia fan - care about WP8?