Google is a business, and as such, strategic business pressures lie behind much of its activity. The AMP project is no exception.
- Facebook Instant Articles and Apple News: Facebook and Apple launched similar technologies in the months before AMP was announced. Compared to AMP's open, web-based approach, the Apple; and Facebook services are more closed, in-app experiences focused on the presentation of static news-type content. Despite this, Google would have seen them as a competitive threat on a new front in the battle for publishers' content and readers' eyeballs. Indeed, AMP was originally viewed as a direct response to these services, although now the range of content it supports has moved beyond the capabilities ...