Mobile networks and smart phones have incredible performance.
AMP is about making up for the race-to-the-bottom behaviour of sites that can’t resist using 6mb and a boatful of JS just to render an article(+analytics+ads)
AMP is about making up for the race-to-the-bottom behaviour of sites that can’t resist using 6mb and a boatful of JS just to render an article(+analytics+ads)
Yes, I think that's incredible. Does it have TCP characteristics similar to an Ethernet-equipped desktop? No, probably not -- but that's got nothing to do with the characteristics that led to the creation of AMP.
Mobile networks and phones are powerful enough for video, so they're powerful enough to download and render a web page. If they're slow at web pages, it's very likely the fault of the page creator, not the network or device.
AMP is an attempt to force the hands of the page creators out there, since they apparently can't self-regulate.
They're really quite shitty computers but luckily there are so many users that tech companies are figuratively bending over backward to make up for their performance problems.