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Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email
Google today officially launched AMP for Email, its effort to turn emails from static documents into dynamic, web page-like experiences. AMP for Email is coming to Gmail, but other major email providers like Yahoo Mail (which shares its parent company with TechCrunch), Outlook and Mail.ru will also support AMP emails.
[...] With AMP for Email, those messages become interactive. That means you'll be able to RSVP to an event right from the message, fill out a questionnaire, browse through a store's inventory or respond to a comment — all without leaving your web-based email client.
Some of the companies that already support this new format are Booking.com, Despegar, Doodle, Ecwid, Freshworks, Nexxt, OYO Rooms, Pinterest, and redBus. If you regularly get emails from these companies, then chances are you'll receive an interactive email from them in the coming weeks.
[...] [Not] everybody is going to like this (including our own Devin Coldewey).
Also at The Verge, 9to5Google, and Engadget:
As you might imagine, Google is determined to keep this secure. It reviews senders before they're allowed to send AMP-based email, and relatively few will support it out of the gate (including Twilio Sendgrid, Litmus and SparkPost).
Previously: Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:50PM (3 children)
I want to mod you up beyond +5. My initial reaction two sentences in: no effin way.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by canopic jug on Wednesday March 27 2019, @06:59PM (2 children)
No choice for those using web mail. Notice that Google has been doing everything it can to eliminate IMAPS clients? If they get enough control over their portion of the market, they will be able to write their own specifications to replace the established standards. They are big enough that, when they decide to, everyone else will have to play ball. They'll have enough control soon and make their move then. A premature grab would blow it for them so until they can pull the trap, they're just ratcheting up the incompatibilities with e-mail in general.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday March 27 2019, @07:15PM (1 child)
Emulation FTW! We can fake anything...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 27 2019, @11:25PM
But once we're faking everything, will anyone remember what reality used to be?