...in terms of requests for mobile web pages served by AdMob.

The Android browser is pretty good and Mobile IE stinks, so I'm not sure this is a 100% accurate reflection of actual devices in use. Also, I bet enterprise users do less casual web surfing than consumers.

Still, pretty interesting.

Yeah, I think it's interesting alright, especially when the browser is becoming the OS.

I didn't realize that Google plans to implement Google Voice on the iPhone by writing it in HTML 5. Thanks to This Week in Google podcast for telling me.

The Google purchase of On2 last week really makes me think Google plans to round out the HTML 5 spec for video by open sourcing all the codecs and patents they now own.

If they do that, the only OS I'd need would be eerily similar to what Chrome OS is rumoured to become.

What fascinates me is how quickly this is all coming together. Linux has been around for years, but it's growth accelerated with the Internet exposing more and more people to the platform.

But what's happening around HTML 5 will do far more good for me as a netizen than the total of what the open source movement has brought about so far.

The HTML 5 demos of audio and video and gaming are very expensive from a processing point of view today. My newest Mac breaks a bit of a sweat when running some of these demos. But processors will get better and browser performance will improve.

I'll be interested to see if/when Apple launches its tablet whether it contains a 3G chip. If they're prepared to sell those things without a voice contract to go along with the data contract, it means they see what Google sees too.

If they don't, my next phone may run Android (2.3 years left on existing contract). HTML 5 with a robust specification for audio and video means I will no longer need iTunes. I will simply stream to the browser from my cloud at home or on someone else's farm. The only time I would need stored content is when I'm off the grid, and Google's figuring that out too with Gears and parts of HTML 5.

It's suddenly a Web world, and we all live in it. If I'm Apple or Microsoft, I'm scared to DEATH of Google, at least in the consumer market. And the ironic thing is Google's not actually competing directly with either of them. Their deaths will simply be byproducts of doing the right thing.

Likewise the fact that the iPhone beats Symbian by only a little bit is a reflection of the browser quality and the general makeup of the user base. Symbian/Nokia is still vastly ahead of Apple in market share.