I still don't see why anyone but a die hard nokia fan would buy a symbian device given that it is to be abandoned. Any developers nokia had are probably pissed as nokia had a plan backed it for 18+ months the last time just over 2 months ago then bam nokia yanks the rug out from under them without any warning.

Now from a general user end, why would I buy a nokia windows phone? Given that they just discontinued a long standing platform of theirs and still borned another, how do I know they won't do it again in the future? I mean what if I get a windows phone a year from now and 18 months later nokia abandons MS how will my phone get updates? It's not like ms rolls it's updates straight to the users, it goes to the device manufacturers, they update things on their end test it, roll it up and either send it to the users or to the carriers for distribution. Is this a risk an informed average user would want to make? I doubt it.