Oh my god head hurts because of stupidity.

Uh, Nokia haven't abandoned their other OSs. They're still selling Symbian, dumb and Linux phones.

Nokia Lumia does not cost $49 to customers. It costs (and makes profit of) $49 + whatever mobile operators make during the two year contract. God americans are stupid if they still go for this marketing trick. Even Slashdot runs bullshit story like this!!

On top of that Nokia is trying to capture US market, so they can spend more on it while they generate revenue from rest of the world.