Like many people around here, I love WP8, but MS has been painfully slow in patching some obvious holes. Despite this,I do think that they may just be starting to sway public perception.
Just a week after the 920 launch, I met with a number of my coworkers at a sales meeting. They all made jokes about my "Windoze" Phone and how heavy it was. We recently got together again and everyone was really curious about how I liked my phone. The Android users said that they were tired of the bugginess of their phones, but weren't willing to go to the small screen size of the iPhone 5, so as long as the 920 was more stable than their current devices they were willing to give it a try.
The one iPhone user thought that the tiles looked really cool and he was ready for something different after three generations of iPhones.
I know that this is just my experience, but the turnaround in people's openness to Windows Phone in just the last three months is remarkable. If this is happening on a more wide scale, then WP will have no problem achieving 3rd place!