I know it might not be their shtick, but I wish the post focused more on the "publication independence" part of the criticism. Giving Google control over prioritizing a subset of the web, and letting them optimize for it, just gives them a better way to filter content. They seriously have enough power over the web as it is.
The other criticisms about how it performs on iOS seem truly secondary, they could easily fix them but we're still left with the far bigger issue.
Additionally, criticisms about iOS having a closed ecosystem seem irrelevant to this. An App Store is one thing, but starting down the path of effectively adding "high speed lanes" to the supposedly free web is scary.
Gruber's first link ( that's not part of the quoted block or a link to the article he's quoting from ) going to a previous piece of his about the publication independence problems of going along with AMP.
Well said. It seems impossible for me to believe that the trajectory Google is on doesn't end in catastrophic, dystopian disaster for us, the consumers. That should have been the focus, rather than scrolling behaviour.
The other criticisms about how it performs on iOS seem truly secondary, they could easily fix them but we're still left with the far bigger issue.
Additionally, criticisms about iOS having a closed ecosystem seem irrelevant to this. An App Store is one thing, but starting down the path of effectively adding "high speed lanes" to the supposedly free web is scary.