How many of you plan on keeping your TP for a while?

[hyakku]

I got my TP 2 a few days ago and I like it. It's a fun device, but when I thought about it I did know that it was just the TP with a bigger screen, slightly more optimized and no flash. While I'm not upset as I got the phone relatively cheap, waiting for this unlocker has made me realize one thing (really don't know how it took me so long to realize this too): these phones (touch pro, 2, WM in general) are supposed to have so much potential, but in order to get even a fraction of it we have to depend on so many other third parties. It makes me start to question, WHY are we doing all this? I think the TP 2 is great, but before I liked WM because it could do stuff other phones can't. Now most other OSes (including droid), can do all that and more.

For example:

Tethering
Business Services (exchange, enterprise, business apps, etc: RIM, Iphone, and Droid is coming up)
Fluid UI's
Multitasking (droid and RIM)
TV
and more.

While I realize there are probably the few things that other phones can't do, for the most part by next year all these phones will have similar capabilities which begs the question, besides cheap plans (which will soon be resoled with T mobiles project dark spurning competition), why stick to a WM phone in the very near future where, even if it is WM 6.5.1, we still need to flash roms every week for functionality? It seems kind of senseless.

Just wondering some other opinions on this, I haven't really made up my mind yet but I'm leaning towards selling this and hopping on T mo if they successfully roll out the rest of their 3g/4g network (which I've been told by multiple people with T Mo has gotten alot faster and far better CS than Sprint/verizon), because I just don't see the point anymore when all the other phones can do what I'm flashing my phone to do.

Edit: Also, if you plan on sticking, can you illuminate maybe some of the specific applications Windows is more practical in than other smartphones. While the business argument used to be sound, as of 2009 Microsoft is barely maintaining marketshare, just as Symbian is losing it because they aren't doing anything innovative. In fact, I phone sales for I believe 2008 were astoundingly closer to WM sales in the business world than I expected.