A bit of a mobile software bombshell dropped overnight with news that some key members of HP's newly open-sourced Enyo team moving to Google, The Verge first reported Thursday evening. Enyo, as you're probably not aware, is the HTML framework that lived and (mostly) died with the Palm TouchPad and was later made open-source with the death of that project. Enyo also makes it relatively easy for webOS-type apps to make their way to, oh, say, Android, which we very quickly saw in apps like Paper Mache.
HP gave the following statement to our sister site, webOS Nation:
"We’re pleased with the traction Enyo has gained to date and plan to continue its development along with the open source community. The Open webOS project is on schedule and we remain committed to the roadmap announced in January.”
The question now is what will that mean for Android in the bigger scheme of things. It's probably a little early to tell, but one can never have too many kick-ass software types supporting its platform. And Palm (erm, HP), for all its faults certainly wasn't lacking in that department. Stick around. this one could get interesting.
Source: The Verge; more: webOS Nation
