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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by VRay on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:01PM (#21707672)
You guys are both way off the rails here

Developers don't need to put in more work to support cheap phones

You just have to install an ad-blocker, and you can surf the web lightning-fast on even an old, slow piece of crap phone

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Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) by BlueTemplar on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:31PM (#21726171)
Yeah, this is ridiculous. I used to browse the Web (not the Wap!) 13 years ago on my Nokia N70 (Symbian OS, 220 Mhz, 32MB) smartphone, on a Internet plan that cost 1€/MB (I have a plan that costs 100 000 times less today), and while it was a bit rough, it was already pretty serviceable!

Most of the content (in time spent on it) is still text (remember what HTTP stands for?), and text takes hardly any processing power!

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