WhatsApp pulled from the Windows Phone Marketplace? [Update #2]

Spot on. All 4 of your posts. Many here don't want to see or admit it, but that's just the way it is. I was defending Windows Phone (and the Zune software requirement, and Windows 7, and Windows 8, and the hundred things that are wrong with all 4) heavily and everywhere, but now the accumulation of small frustrations has reached my head and made me realize how much is wrong with all of it. I for one am able to see all the faults, now more clear than ever. I've defended it very often, but now that I have to switch off my data connection every time for the wifi to be able to work, and that it still hasn't been fixed even though I installed the Tango update, has really killed the bird.
 
And because, as you accurately described it, I feel "conned" by MS, it is now very hard for me to trust WP8 and Microsoft as a company, and I don't really look forward to being disappointed again, and a lot of the things that made the UI good (not only in looks but in useablity) in WP7, were destroyed in WP7.5 (the letter boxes for example, now I only have effectively half the screen...wtf...it's like I have a 2.2 inch dumbphone again, instead of a large and high screen...scrolling for names or albums has become a pain because you have to do it very slow because you only see a few at a time and you easily miss something, especially when scrolling through album covers. I also feel that there was a search for the music before that is now gone, but I could be wrong on the last part.
A lot of things don't work the way they should on a Smartphone (they work like on a S40, and I don't mean battery eating multitasking like Android's, there's literally dozens of other things), and I as a user who has paid money and bought a Smartphone, don't really give a rats ass about their Kernel excuses, WP7 was supposed to be all new and without the baggage of WP6.5. I also don't care about their "but we haven't announced the user features yet!", that was okay with me when it was the developer conference, and I used to write that to people who were mocking wp 7.8, but now it's months after, they should've had made a presentation by now if they really had anything more than the new startscreen planned for WP7.8...at least IE10 and some other things, but they haven't so I assume they won't have that to force people to buy a new WP8 phone because they figure if someone has bought a WP in the first place, he must really want it (and really not want a Google or Apple phone) so over 90% will buy...but I guess they haven't figured that they really want me to purchase a phone from someone else. So that everyone knows what WP8 and WP7.8 will have, but they are greedy (as you also accurately described) and want to con more people into buying a current outdated phone without knowing what they will or will not get in the Update. Let's not kid ourselves, the phones won't be on the shelves the day after they introduce them, and they need the forerun for word-to-mouth.
They also marketed it with Xbox in mind, but really there is nothing there. There should be something like the ability to play games like Words with Friends or Draw Something with your Xbox Live friends or something. (I don't have an xbox and don't use Xbox live, but I think that should be a minimum...when everyone started playing the new popular iOS/Android multiplayer game, I don't have it. I don't play games for myself, I'm not a teenager anymore, but something like a multiplayer fun game with friends would be cool, but that doesn't exist for WP with other platforms.)
Also, wtf is up with zune...it screwed up my whole music library ON MY COMPUTER, even though I turned off auto-tagging, it didn't recognize my album covers, deleted them, often not even the correct names of songs, album and artist, it doesn't pull the artist backgrounds like it is supposed to do (not even when I spend a lot of time linking them all in the Zune Social Tagger program, it just doesn't), even though everything is tagged perfectly. There's a million other things.
I have a first gen WP, and am glad that I haven't bought a Lumia for myself at the beginning of the year. I made the mistake and bought one for my sister, for now it satisfies her WhatsApp needs, but in 6 months, I guarantee she will be fed up with it because it won't be able to do what her friends iPhones do, or not have the App that they are all using. Also she won't be getting WP8 (which I thought was a given because Microsoft specifically advertised that all Windows Phones would always get the new versions), so none of the new (probably will never come just like they didn't for WP7...) Apps that are made for WP8/WRT/W8 will make it to her phone. I'm glad I only paid 150€'s for these phones (mine and hers), they are just better S40 phones.
Looking back, my best phones were always the ones where I followed the herd and bought what everyone had or liked at the time. Every since I didn't want to support Apple and Google I've been sht outta luck in Smartphones and basically had touchscreen-featurephones. But now...what's there for me to stop? The avalanche has already destroyed the village, it won't make a difference wether I now buy one or not, they have successfully established themselves, made money and are selling more and more, my boycott won't change anything and won't make a dent in their greedy earnings, but which they have earned considering they have made a good product that solves the needs of hundreds of millions of people...they are the new Nokia 5110/3210/3310/S40/S60/N95..and with one product...not 50 where every thing is lacking something and is in one way or another half-assed to save money and steal money from people, they really just use the best components available.
WP8 would have to be A LOT better than the next iPhone for me to really get it...if what we saw is the next iPhone, I like it more than the predecessors and it adresses the main gripes that I had with the 4S, a larger screen but still one-hand friendly*, plastic border instead of metal, and a non-glass backside.
*(Without a penalty of crappy resolution or slower processor, like all the WP and Android manufacturers seem to think, that only their largest 4.7inch monster-tablet-phones deserve the high end hardware (screen and chip) and everything below 4.3" should only have cheaper crappy components and that no one who wants a phone which they can actually use with their hand wants good hardware...offering different sizes is good, but don't penalize those who want a normal sized phone, with worse hardware components, make them all the same good quality and only different sizes... -.- )
I'm also in the market for a new Laptop, and I want a thin and light, I really wanted an AMD Trinity powered Ultrathin, with a good IPS Display and an SSD, but there is nothing on the market, they just sell Trinity in crappy laptops with 768 Displays in the worst format (16:9), normal hard drives and only one stick of memory...I surely won't pay over 1000€'s for an Intel Ultrabook, they are all very cheaply built (just check comparison pictures next to an Apple laptop) and you can see the PC manufacturers being greedy and trying to save every dollar they can. The trackpads are small and horrible, that's a given, funny how they can not build in a good one in 5 years, just like they can't build in a good screen... Yesterday I searched for laptops with a proper 16:10 screen, and guess who was the only one who has it...Apple. I compared the screen size on a website between a 13" 16:10 and a 15.6" 16:9, and the 13" 16:10 is just as large, and just lacks some space on the side, which I don't need anyway, the sides are always white and empty anyway. And since Windows 8 (contrary to what I would like to believe when people write it, and I just consider them idiots) seems to be horrible to use on a non-touch device, and since touchscreen-ultrabooks will be expensive as hell, I don't see why I should pay as much (or more) for a cheapish product with a bad screen and trackpad where they don't hide how they have been saving to increase their profit, when for the same or less money I can get a overall MUCH better product. And Macintosh is not what it used to be anymore, now they have plenty of programs/apps which are probably of higher quality than crappy Windows programs which are mostly from the early XP age, together with their look like Windows 98. And don't mention games, why do you people always assume that everyone is playing games and has that as important for them when buying a laptop...I don't know anyone who plays computer games, and I'm not old. If anything, you'll get laughed at when you have games on your computer like a 14 year old. If I ever feel the need to play games (for with friends mostly), I'll just buy a PS3/Xbox/WiiU, they'll only cost around 100-200 anyway, which is cheap enough and shouldn't determine one's laptop or computer choice.
A few weeks ago, I was really looking forward to a new WP8 and a W8 laptop, maybe even a WinRT tablet like the Asus transformer, but now...it's gone. Too much disappointment and frustration, too much works required from me to keep the sht running and in order properly the way I want it, too much wrong with everything, there just much better products available. Maybe I'll revisit Microsoft for WP9 or 10 and W9 or 10, but I think my next purchase could very well be Apple from where I am writing this right now, as much as I hate that company. We'll see, there's still 2-3 months before I really actually purchase anything.