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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I think the netbook boom, which has been the catalyst for Atom processors selling so well, is finally slowing. You can chock that up to so many people already owning a netbook, and a lack of incentive to buy newer models, which have had essentially the same interior components for awhile now.
I used a netbook for awhile (the Asus 1000HE) before giving it to my Mom for her birthday. The battery life was a dream, yes, but the processor/chipset is really what kills the thing. Considering that the main purpose of a netbook is for internet surfing, you'd be surprised at the amount of sites that just chug along with the lack of power. With the internet evolving along to more rich media, heavily flash-based web content and video, the Atom processor alone just isn't enough. Even something Ion based, with an Nvidia GPU, assumes that programs are written to handle offloading the work onto the GPU, but the problem is that as of today, not everything you would probably want to use a netbook for does that. That means that you'll be needing more processing power than the Atom can muster.