If only I had a nickel for every online commenter who swore up and down that no one else implements or supports AMP, and then uses that to justify claiming Google is trying to fork the web...all major platforms pursuing end-arounds mobile ad garbage, _except_ Facebook and Apple, use and contribute to AMP.
Anyways, I'm just happy to finally have usable web results on mobile.
Who conceived of AMP Stories? Who conceived of AMP in Email? What do they even have to do with "Accelerated Mobile Pages"?
My irritation with AMP is also driven by the fact it's not usable for me. Reader mode is often broken in iOS which is a particularly egregious regression. URLs are obviously broken. And sometimes sites can't even get text-on-a-page right with their AMP versions: https://twitter.com/lukestevens/status/963910460796936192
AMP makes it faster (maybe) but the experience is worse. I copy URLs a lot to share, and a fucking AMP link doesn't even navigate and requires a different means of finding the actual URL... garbage.
Bing's primary pressure is a need to compete performance wise with Google. The fact that the implementation is bad doesn't mean they don't need to match on the metrics.
Nobody said the problem was AMP's code being available. The issue is the way Google is forcing their framework's dominance using their search monopoly.
Does Bing host the pages on their own servers? Hosting your content on their servers could be a motivation for joining. If Google is going to appify your websites on their own servers, then Microsoft doesn't want to be left out. They can both put giant back buttons on your website that take you back to the search engine results instead of deeper into the website.
Anyways, I'm just happy to finally have usable web results on mobile.