Do you know what the greatest ever successful sales pitch in the US is?
"We are selling a lot of these..."
Way too many of my fellow Americans need to feel loved and in with the "in" crowd. There are more kids with apple phones than all other brands put together. It is a peer pressure thing an not a functionality, features or value issue.
I have an Android (Moto X - Developers) and it is only used as a controller for Chromecast to the TV. It no longer even has a SIM. My amazing $104, unlocked 520 powers the household (2-TV + 3-Tablets) for the Internet with an unlimited Talk/Text/Data package for 60-bucks a month. Currently we are running at around 98GBof Data per month.
Only more and more people will see the benefits of WP, especially with the attention msoft is lavishing on WP8.1
It has the apple-fan-boys worried.