>Apple and Facebook, two of the largest content consumers, have their own competing formats
Solving different problems on THEIR platforms.
AMP is just imposing a non-solution to a non-problem on web users.
Solving different problems on THEIR platforms.
AMP is just imposing a non-solution to a non-problem on web users.
Because it is GOOD for Google.
Also Google owns Doubleclick which is the biggest and slowest ad server on the planet.
Yes, it's not a problem: it's a symptom.
Bloated pages is the actual problem - for which there is an existing well known solution: reduce the crap on your pages.
No new single company standard, no furthering Google's market capture, and no hiding links, is needed to achieve that.
>Why would Google be implementing a technology that is BAD for their users?
Gee, I wonder, why would ever a company do that. Except, for profit, and market capture, and reducing competition, and all that...
Maybe you're just not the target user for this, or even for the Internet. And to be honest, pretty much nobody reading HackerNews is the target user for this.