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They're not wrong, but coming from the creators of AMP this is a bit rich.

AMP was the defense against all content moving into native apps like Facebook. Antithesis of open web, with completely locked down content, applied DRM and no ability to contribute without the review of platform owners.

It's that the endgame you'd have preferred? Ecosystem of apps because news web developers refused to make their ad and autoplay video ridden websites usable on the mobile devices?

Look at the trends and tell me if you'd have preferred to read all your content in an Apple News walled garden instead?

> AMP was the defense against all content moving into native apps like Facebook.

Google: We will defend you but we'll also strangle you while at it.

Of course, they're a corporation. The question is - why did noone else step up and try to address the issue? Other corpos just wanted to silo all data into their proprietary platforms and opensource/openweb teams just pretended that the issue never existed.

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