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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No way is a 1.6Ghz Atom comparable to, or faster than, a 2.4Ghz Celeron. It's more comparable to a 1Ghz mobile Celeron. Flash does slow it down quite a bit too, depending on what you're doing with it.
I'd like to see much better battery life on ARM, but I don't believe that the CPU is the main energy-sucking component of a netbook. Powertop on Ubuntu 9.04 shows half as many CPU wakeups per second as on Ubuntu 8.10, yet the battery life is still virtually the same. Running an external monitor and turning off the backlight does far more for energy savings than making the processor more efficient.