Re:Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
by acdha on Saturday May 20, 2017 @10:43PM
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I'm aware of that but it's new – it took a year to add, giving many time to develop a negative association with the icon – and it's still clumsy compared to the standard web experience.
With real web pages, the native sharing UI just works as it does everywhere else.
With AMP, you have to know to tap a different unfamiliar icon and then know that the unstyled URL displayed is actually a link you can interact with. That means that sharing goes from one tap to 2-3 and that's after people learn that Google gives substandard results doing what they're familiar with and so you need to remember to do something else only for pages which you found on Google.
With real web pages, the native sharing UI just works as it does everywhere else.
With AMP, you have to know to tap a different unfamiliar icon and then know that the unstyled URL displayed is actually a link you can interact with. That means that sharing goes from one tap to 2-3 and that's after people learn that Google gives substandard results doing what they're familiar with and so you need to remember to do something else only for pages which you found on Google.