[jeffbee]

AMP solves a social problem for newspaper owners. They are all evil, venal people incapable of hiring for or motivating technical staff to make the right choice for users. This is why your average local newspaper or TV station site downloads 100MB of crap, fires 10000 timers per second, and needs 10-60s to render on your phone. AMP puts these jerks in a straightjacket while also trying to ensure they still get paid.

Theoretically there's a marketplace where better/faster news sites would be preferred by readers, but in actual fact all the news outlets are owned by the same guy.

[afavour]

> This is why your average local newspaper or TV station site downloads 100MB of crap, fires 10000 timers per second, and needs 10-60s to render on your phone

No, the reason for that, almost all of the time, is ads. It's true that local news rarely hires talented developers (they don't have the money) but even if they did they'd still be at the mercy of shitty ad code written by shitty ad providers. One of which is Google! So they generously solved the problem they created by setting up a new walled garden.

[reaperducer]

AMP solves a social problem for newspaper owners. They are all evil, venal people incapable of hiring for or motivating technical staff to make the right choice for users.

Don't forget how they sit on top of piles of money bags twirling their mustaches, taking lollypops from children, and cackling "Ha ha ha ha ha!" while looking down on the plebs below. Don't forget that!