Google’s Chrome and Android Stake Claim to Mobile “Real Estate”

Is Google staking their claim in mobile “real estate” with Chrome browser and Android operating system?

With everyone talking about Google going after IE and the Microsoft desktop, most people overlook how Google’s mobile strategy ties into everything they do.

Of course, many things at Google seem to tie into their bigger strategy, like their investments in an undersea telecommunications cable (Betanews.com) and wireless communication through satellite (NY Times), or their participation the recent telecom spectrum auction process (InformationWeek).

We can’t forget their actions to “Free the Airwaves” (see the post by Google’s own Minnie Ingersoll, Product Manager, Alternative Access Team).

In terms of mobile, if you think about the phone as the “computer everyone carries around with them” and that more and more power is coming to these small hand held devices, Chrome and Android again help place Google smack dab in the path of future progress.

Just like in real estate investing, it’s all about location, location, location.

Google has their “prime real estate” bought and paid for, now all they have to do is wait for progress to push the rest of us right to their doorstep.

PS – Unlike regular real estate though, Google is offering “free rent” on most of its properties (Chrome, Android, Gmail, etc).

“Can you see me now”? Chrome + Gears = desktop apps

Insightful Chrome analysis pops up in the oddest places.

How about in a publication about mobile phones?

The UK’s “The Register” can definitely “see it”.

In their mobile section, they had this bit of insight about Chrome (just before moving on to talk about Gears and Nokia):

“Perhaps the subtlest but most important feature of Chrome is the bridge between desktop and web applications. The inclusion of Google Gears allows Google’s web services to work offline.

But Chrome users can also create a shortcut to web pages on their desktop from within Chrome. Clicking on the short cut launches the web page in a minimal “app like” window, with no address bar or navigation buttons.

So now I can have short cuts to Gmail and Google Calendar, and when gears offline support rolls out, they will seem a lot more like a standard desktop applications.”

Sounds more and more like the Windows 1.0 “Operating environment” doesn’t it?

Check out the full article here at “The Register”