I often use Google Images to find actual articles to read. It happens like this: I search for a combo I'm looking for, only the pages that Google finds are not exactly about what I'm after. From the images I can see immediately if the article at least contains some relevant information for me.
If you read closely, you will notice that due to the enormous amount of power that Gmail has, they cannot refuse to serve emails with AMP content in the end.
Yeah - our duty is to serve the needs of our customers while making wise and pragmatic security decisions to keep them safe. If large amounts of email that people want to see is delivered via AMP pages, we'll make them viewable and usable somehow - hopefully in a way that makes it clear that they are mutable, and maybe even informs users if they've changed since last view.
> "...hopefully in a way that makes it clear that they are mutable, and maybe even informs users if they've changed since last view."
That would be amazing, and as a happy Fastmail customer I'd love to see it implemented. I am in full agreement with your blog post, and Google's AMP-email plan only further cements my position to excise Google from my life as much as possible. As much as I love seeing new and emerging technologies, there are times when one must say "that's too far".
Well, they could. AMP content is basically for email marketing and that's about it. Showing updated marketing brochures, deals, or ads within actual email content. It's nothing that the vast majority of users actually want or need. But marketers and spammers really really want it.
> Not 'rational', I know, but I'm sure I'm not alone.
But in fact what you did was rational in its own way. You enjoyed blogs in the beginning, as long as they were easily accessible by an aggregator. When the user friendly aggregator went away, you decided the blogs didn't offer enough good content to justify the increased management and use of your time.
The day I heard about Grammarly (saw a Youtube ad). Free to use, I thought to myself, this surely monetizes by analysing all my input in their servers, wherever they are.
It looks like a good product. If they offered a true offline version for desktop with 4+ updates a year, I could see myself paying for it.
There are some things easier for a computer to do, like lots of simple math, given that the computer can accurately store the result of each calculation, whereas people have difficulty doing so for 1000 integers.
And there are some things that are relatively easy for humans to do, like communicate with natural language. Sarcasm falls into the later category. This is because human understanding is heavily social and conceptual.
