Gerb et al, quasi academic geek disputes may be fun for some, but it has no relevance to the real world. The switch to WP makes sense ONLY in an ecosystem perspective. It makes no sense what so ever to switch to WP to sell phones at premium prices to make large profit from HW. No sense at all.

To profit on HW you need something special like an undisputable top dog like the sgs3 or an icon like the iPhone. A 808 running Android would be such a device, an 808 running WP would also be such a device, hell the 808 running belle is such a device, and it is not even promoted by Nokia anywhere.

WP8 vs WP7.8 please, get a life. It makes no difference other than bad mouthing PR from the blogosphere (which is bad enough, but more of a nuisance than a real worry)