Google have not announced on which products or services these developers may be working on, but with the current issues with Oracle over the Android Java stack, they may well be integrated into to the Android team in order to create and alternative HTML5 stack which would truly be free from Oracle’s grasp. Such an open and web-technology based system would certainly be popular amongst web developers, as developing apps for Android as an OS would no longer take different skills to developing mobile websites in general. It would also cement Android’s place as the truly web-focused and open-thinking mobile OS in contrast to the closed systems from Apple, Microsoft, and RIM.
[via The Verge]