AMP for email is a terrible idea
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AMP for email is a terrible idea
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Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#2Just a Luddite rant on love of a pedestrian standard. Without even trying out Google's offering, the author goes off on a preconceived notion.
I welcome Google's attempt at this - let the free market decide it's success
Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#3Just a Luddite rant on love of a pedestrian standard. Without even trying out Google's offering, the author goes off on a preconceived notion. I welcome Google's attempt at this - let the free market decide it's success
Free market? Is that what we call it when one member of the duopoly controlling most email clients decides to embrace and extend the standard?
Also even if you believe in Santa Claus and free markets, people getting on their soapbox to say “this is a terrible idea” is part of the free market.
Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#4Devin Coldewey against a bunch of Google employees, who will win? (sarcasm)
On a more serious note, if the idea of AMP is so bad as many people attest. How is that the "bad idea" passed over so many people at a company that praises itself of hiring some of the most smartest people in the field? Hyperbole, the author of this article is just generalizing. Maybe AMP for email works for some people, making it a good idea for them.
Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#5Just a Luddite rant on love of a pedestrian standard. Without even trying out Google's offering, the author goes off on a preconceived notion. I welcome Google's attempt at this - let the free market decide it's success
Free market as influenced by a commercial entity intentionally making most other options unusable.
Yeah, the free market is a good metric there...
Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#6Just a Luddite rant on love of a pedestrian standard. Without even trying out Google's offering, the author goes off on a preconceived notion. I welcome Google's attempt at this - let the free market decide it's success
Free market as influenced by a commercial entity intentionally making most other options unusable. Yeah, the free market is a good metric there...
It can be argued that e-mail spam made most self-hosted e-mail unusable.
Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#7Good luck! I had the "pleasure" of working on HTML emails a few months back. It was unbelievably painful. Getting even a simple email to display consistently across a dozen different mail clients is a huge pain. This is why so many marketing emails use giant images for everything--it's the simples way to get consistent rendering.
I predict whatever Google launches will work in GMail, and GMail only.
Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#8Just a Luddite rant on love of a pedestrian standard. Without even trying out Google's offering, the author goes off on a preconceived notion. I welcome Google's attempt at this - let the free market decide it's success
Free market? Is that what we call it when one member of the duopoly controlling most email clients decides to embrace and extend the standard? Also even if you believe in Santa Claus and free markets, people getting on their soapbox to say “this is a terrible idea” is part of the free market.
No - expressing an opinion is called "freedom of speech", which goes hand in hand with the free market.
You'd be amazed at the number of initiatives launched by the supposed monopoly (Google) failing in the free market. Nacl lost out to wasm. Chrome OS never really took off.
Despite people's gripes about AMP, consumers are clearly loving faster, more responsive websites and hence it's relevance. Let this play out and we'll see where it leads
Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#9I'm just now finding out that google is planning AMP for email. :(
It seems almost comical. On the one hand, we are constantly told that email is losing out to modern instant messaging avenues for communication. On this hand, the plan for competing is to try and make it more heavy weight? Reminds me of when Wave supposedly was going to remake email.
I suspect someday I'll just be a luddite, as mentioned in another thread. I really hope this is not that day.
Re: AMP for email is a terrible idea
#10Devin Coldewey against a bunch of Google employees, who will win? (sarcasm) On a more serious note, if the idea of AMP is so bad as many people attest. How is that the "bad idea" passed over so many people at a company that praises itself of hiring some of the most smartest people in the field? Hyperbole, the author of this article is just generalizing. Maybe AMP for email works for some people, making it a good idea…
AMP is an excellent idea... for Google. (And only Google.) The point being that the benefit to Google is clearly larger than the PR hit they take for continuing to push a thing that's costing them a lot of goodwill with the Internet community.