Have we really gotten ourselves into the situation where we have to blindly follow the PR from our favorite phone manufacturer and piss any competing announcement before it's even announced?
Nokia Series 60 sold 116 million handsets a year, 36% worldwide market share.
Windows Phone 7 has roughly a 2% worldwide market share.
Yes, it's very easy to say "I don't know what it is, but I hate it." At a 2% market share, it doesn't make commercial sense for developers to pay attention.
It seems to be de rigeur to hate on Blackberry these days. But I think people are starting to realize that the smartphone market = more than the Facebook + Angry Birds continuum. http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/why-people-stil...
Both Nokia's Symbian phones and Blackberry still have enviable mind and market share when you look at them globally. Reports of the death of either have been greatly exaggerated.
Windows Phone, however, is fast going the way of the Zune. Looks great, and is, in point of actual fact, a nifty platform, but nobody you know has one. Say what you will about Symbian and Blackberry, there are phones out there loaded with those OSes that are selling. Blackberry's profit may be off by 50% for the quarter, but it is still a profit.
Windows Phone needs a flagship Nokia device soon, or it is going to go the way of the Zune and the Kin.