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Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web

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Re: Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web

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Re: Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web

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I think it's very important to address the reason why AMP is possible in the first place: Websites are so extremely slow these days.

From users perspective, when I see the lightning icon on my search results I feel happy because it means that the page will show me it's contents as soon as I click it.

It means that the website is not going to show me white page for 15 seconds then start jumping around, changing shape and position for another 30 seconds until everything is downloaded.

I hear all the ethical/economical/strategic concerns but the tech community resembles the taxi industry a bit, that is, claiming that a tech that improves users experience significantly is bad for the user and must be stopped politically instead of addressing the UX issue that allows this tech to exist in first place.

Re: Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web

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Genuine question: Why do people view AMP as a threat, whereas many Apple's formats/compatibility are non-standard? Is it because many accept privacy over openness? Example: Apple news or iTunes or Messages

My guess is that they are separate services which have always been that way and people can choose not to use them from the beginning. Amp is different in that it sits in front of a lot of websites which used to work directly, it’s apples and oranges.

iTunes didn’t take over any existing service or stop you from doing something you could before on the web

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