Hey Gang,

I’ve been an advertising guy for the high tech industry since 1979, and I’ve got to say: Nothing like the last few months of tech announcements has ever happened before. The landscape of “who owns what” has changed significantly in the last few months, weeks, and even days. Consider the five-year impact of these moves just on mobile developers:

Android phones could/will outnumber iPhones. Google has the fastest PC web browser, Chrome. It’s developing a (presumably game-changing) operating system, also called Chrome. Google and Apple are at war on brands, platforms, operating systems, browsers, phones, mobile application stores, mobile advertising, development communities and employees.

Now, let Google drop a 4G Gpad on the table, maybe one with an Android/Chrome combo OS.

Gpad or iPad, when the sleek, high-speed mid-size screen comes to mobile computing, you will never again find an empty seat at a sidewalk coffee shop.

Oh yes, as you may have heard last week, for some, Google will offer the fastest desktop PC fiber connection to the home – many, many times faster than our current snail-pace home speeds. You won’t be able to resist it for the PC. And, while Google’s there with fiber and boxes and stuff, why not wire up the TV and a wicked-awesome droid desk phone? One service, one bill, one company. One pissed off Comcast.

Or maybe Google is just trying to spur the others along to run faster.

Either way, it’s a big deal, opening the opportunity for much more sophisticated data-packed desktop, TV and desk phone apps with mobile components.

SoMo – Social Mobile

Oh yeah, and have you seen the brand new Google Buzz? I love Twitter, I love Buzz more. And I know I’m not the only one. They will coexist as fierce competitors for both features and app developers.

What else? One observer noticed that Microsoft has called off its war with Apple, finally upgrading Microsoft Office for Mac to full capabilities. Does this look like a Survivor’s alliance with Microsoft and Apple make-nice to join forces against Google? I see Microsoft attacking Google with Bing/Yahoo search, a mobile OS upgrade, and now augmented reality mapping. By upgrading Mac Office with an improved Excel (finally), Microsoft was pulling Apple closer and protecting its Mac Office base from defecting to Google Apps. Big tag-team fights, on a scale we’ve never seen, are on the way.

Then, let’s add the whole mobile movement, more people accessing the Internet on phones than PCs. This feels like a volcano. The World Mobile Congress was held this week in Barcelona. You just wouldn’t believe the major alliances and communities happening from this, right now. And the magnitude of mobile traffic growth is off the page. Again, mobile app developers are the coveted resource.

The desktop web-only business world is going to get left out, big time, very soon. Caught unaware and late to join, they are going to have to scramble to acquire mobile marketing intelligence and a sense of “who is where” in mobile audiences. Ads are being turned into mobile applications. And mobile applications are delivering ads from within. Google bought a mobile ad company, Apple bought a mobile ad company, Microsoft already has one. And new, advanced mobile analytics are a money-making machine just waiting to be turned on.

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Businesses are already jittery about what they’re missing by avoiding the topic of “Social Media.” They have no idea of what they will be missing in “Mobile Web Browsing” by the end of 2010.

Yeah, things are changing quickly, things that will have  an enormous impact on our world as techies and tech consumers.

One more thing. Toss all that into the very beginning of an economic recovery cycle. Mobile app developers, your time has come.