The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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Processors are processors. Everything will collide. It will start with the cell broadband engine being used under SPEGL, and it will continue with CUDA and gallium stream co-processing.. and after that, we'll have plentiful quad core machines with the occasional octal core...
Make no mistake. In ten years, that's one market, not two.
The Cell is really poor for performing a large share of regular computing tasks and is best suited for render and/or server farms, not home computers. It's also, from everything I've seen, inordinately expensive and has a low success rate in being created, but don't let your fanboy cataracts let you see anything based in reality.
P.S. Processors aren't just processors, or else we wouldn't differentiate between floating-point and fixed-point, x64, x86, PPC, SPARC, etc. Eventually we'll reach a point where software emulation of video hardware can be done on the CPU, but there's a difference between that and native CPU video support.