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Hey, I saw your bot reply so I read the article about AMP and readd the comments on it by the author. It's worth mentioning that the author explains in the comment section that it's not a power grab, just Google wanting a good UX. Might be worth updating some of the more confrontational wording in light of this (that did happen a year ago though).
Comment by Killed_Mufasa at 02/09/2019 at 17:57 UTC
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It might be worth mentioning that the author has since written another article later expressing his disappointment[1] in the way Google handles this controversy.
1: https://www.socpub.com/articles/rehabilitating-google-amp-my-failed-attempt-16258
Google is moving too slowly. For example, non-AMP pages in the news carousel are 'in development[2]', but here's the thing, it has been for more than 2 years. Call me a crazy foilhead, but I don't think Google has good motives with AMP.
2: https://amp.dev/community/roadmap/
That said, you make a valid point by saying that the wording was too confrontational. We can't be sure about their motives, so I've made some edits to make the text better reflect that what we know for sure. Thx for your feedback!