storm64007
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join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
| Free good broadband content..uhmm where?
Uhmm..where is the better broadband content that i can get for free? Can you get CNN streaming news without paying for a pass? Where else can you watch daily concerts streaming at 400K? MLB live?
ECT ECT..tell me where i can get all this for free. I really would like to know.
If you want that broadband content you PAY for it.
This article was written by a brainless twit.
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nightdesigns
Gone missing, back soon
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join:2002-05-31
AZ
 ·Cox HSI
| Their Best Customers are people who are stubborn
AOL does have one thing going for them, older generations. The younger generations that have a computer background quickly figured out that AOL was slowing them down. But AOL has somehow captured the older generations who are stubborn about changing, why, because they resist change. It's amazing they have a computer in the first place.
Case-in-point. My girlfriend's mom uses AOL & Comcast. Ever since they got comcast i've been trying to get her to ditch the AOL. She doesn't use any of the AOL "special content" just surfs the web, and uses the e-mail. I've shown her time after time that using IE directly is many times faster, easier to use, and less buggy, but she keeps going back. So she pays an additional $23 a month for no reason (hasn't called to at least switch to the BYOA plan).
Go figure!
It's the one and only thing AOL has. the next generation of users will go elsewhere because they know better. |
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Minister
join:2002-01-02
Fleeting
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Re: Free good broadband content..uhmm where?
Oh. Insults when you don't agree. The sure sign of advanced intelligence.
Don't see where it says free anywhere in there, firstly.
Second:
You can get music and entire films free via peer to peer music services.
You can get MLB content packages straight from MLB.com.
YOu can pay for a wide variety of news services from a ton of content providers like Reuters now.
You can get Quicktime movie trailers at Apple's website for free.
Via Google you can find any information you need, 24/7.
RealPlayer, Yahoo, Microsoft....they all offer the same redundant $hit, and most of it's garbage.
There has ALWAYS been this Bull$shit PR spin out of the mouths of AOL marketing execs that they offer this exclusive experience....which is nonsense, and they're trying to pass the same idea off AGAIN on a matured market that KNOWS BETTER (at least most of us do).
So tell me. What exactly, for 55 dollars a month or $14.95 (plus the cost of your original connection which is probably at least 40$, nearing sixty bucks a month + itemized fees for their voicemail and many other services which don't get included in the monthly cost) are you getting that you can't get for free, or from fifty other providers for probably less money?
If a live 400kbps streaming 30 minute copy of several Foo Fighters songs really impresses you that much, you must be a very happy fellow.
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storm64007
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
| YES..you pay for all that. Add it up buddy.
Quicktime trailors..lol..dont make me laugh.
As for foo fighters..it was a live two hour concert. I love people who comment on something they never seen or experienced. Sort of like religous right wing nuts protesting a movie they never seen. If you want good broadband content..YOU PAY FOR IT.
Downloading movies???..what the hell does stealing copywrited material have to do with an isp that provides broadband streams to watch hassle free.
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Minister
join:2002-01-02
Fleeting
| It's spelled "trailers" champ.
And the truth is very little of what they offer can't be found elsewhere either for fee and for free. It's INSANE to pay them $55, or 15 bucks a month on top of what you're already paying for your broadband connection, and quite frankly, anyone who's doing so is...to be polite...a tool and easily sold to. |
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY
| reply to nightdesigns
Re: Their Best Customers are people who are stubbo
now now now, not all of us old folk are still living in the middle ages. be nice. I have 2 computers and broadband!! whoa!!!!! by the way just think of the tax burden you will have buying us our SSI and Medicare needs once we baby boomers retire. we love you and thank you. |
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MortySnerd
join:2001-07-26
Mclean, VA
| reply to nightdesigns
Re: Their Best Customers are people who are stubborn
Yup! AOL is being stupid, they should focus on the one thing they can provide that no other online service is even interested in trying to do: making things easy and understandable to everyone.
My mother is now confident enough with AOL to dive in and solve her own problems when they arise. The error messages in AOL are not "404 Not found there is a reconfulgarization in your TCP/IP stack which is preventing UDP packets from routable transmission paths. Re-transmit your packet request later". Instead, they are clear cut enough that she can understand what's wrong.
I've tried to show her IE and outlook, but I have to admit, they are no where near as intuitive as AOL's latest interface. Say what you will, it does do that much well. I've seen her do with AOL everything the Internet promises you can do.
As a result, our family pays for Cox HSI cable modem, and $15 for AOL's BYOA. I'll bet there are many more like us.
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storm64007
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join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
| reply to Minister
Re: Free good broadband content..uhmm where?
said by Minister  :
It's spelled "trailers" champ.
And the truth is very little of what they offer can't be found elsewhere either for fee and for free. It's INSANE to pay them $55, or 15 bucks a month on top of what you're already paying for your broadband connection, and quite frankly, anyone who's doing so is...to be polite...a tool and easily sold to.
LOL you have no idea what your talking about. OOOOHHHH. I AM A REAL INTERNET SURFING NERD WEEEEEEEEEE..wheres my pocket protector..i hate aol becouse its not the real internet or bradband.
LOL..WHAT A JOKE |
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Minister
join:2002-01-02
Fleeting | Err...yeah. A joke at least one of us won't ever get. |
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nl4jy
join:2002-05-02
Brooklyn, NY
| reply to MortySnerd
Re: Their Best Customers are people who are stubborn
And unfortunate for AOL, the non stubborn old generation knows better and ditching them every day. AOL should know if they're losing customers, nothing but lower price would bring them back. Instead of spending more money on research and programs to attract more customers, they should focus on how to keep the know-betters customers to stay.
Nothing talks better than MONEY. You give me a more service for alot less, I'll more likely to stay with you and less likely to switch.
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Mike
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join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
clubs:   |  I've live on AOL too
If you want to be live with me, press 86868686868686 |
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storm64007
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
| reply to Minister
Re: Free good broadband content..uhmm where?
said by Minister :
Err...yeah. A joke at least one of us won't ever get.
The joke is this brainless article. |
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storm64007
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join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY | reply to Mike
Re: I've live on AOL too
868698686..oh my god..your wearing a leather studded jock strap masturbating to tatu. |
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Minister
join:2002-01-02
Fleeting
| reply to nl4jy
Re: Their Best Customers are people who are stubborn
Exactly. Right now they're starting to offer content, but the prices are ridiculous. When you can get SBC/Yahoo DSL for 3 bucks more than AOL dial-up, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict the weather. (then again, judging from my new intellectually potent buddy I made above, maybe it does) |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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| reply to rit56
Re: Their Best Customers are people who are stubbo
said by rit56 :
by the way just think of the tax burden you will have buying us our SSI and Medicare needs once we baby boomers retire. we love you and thank you.
lol. you know we are going to leave you old folk out to dry as soon as everyone realizes the cost to support the baby boomers will be impossible to support. good luck gramps! 
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murdok6100
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join:2002-06-20
| reply to Minister
Re: Their Best Customers are people who are stubborn
said by Minister :
Exactly. Right now they're starting to offer content, but the prices are ridiculous. When you can get SBC/Yahoo DSL for 3 bucks more than AOL dial-up, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict the weather. (then again, judging from my new intellectually potent buddy I made above, maybe it does)
I think the folks that get AOL, get it for the interface to the internet (or their version of it). I also think that only a few AOL user give a rats fat one about this "New Added Content" or "Broadband Access"
murdok610 |
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Minister
join:2002-01-02
Fleeting
| reply to storm64007
Re: Free good broadband content..uhmm where?
I know it must suck that your Mom only lets you have AOL broadband or some other crappy ISP like a low speed telco. But when you grow up you'll be able to choose like the rest of us! So don't feel sad, and don't take out your teenage angst on an article that paints AOL for what it is. Behind the times and too expensive for what they provide.
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storm64007
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
| said by Minister :
I know it must suck that your Mom only lets you have AOL broadband or some other crappy ISP like a low speed telco. But when you grow up you'll be able to choose like the rest of us! So don't feel sad, and don't take out your teenage angst on an article that paints AOL for what it is. Behind the times and too expensive for what they provide.
[text was edited by author 2003-05-09 14:07:13]
HAHA! What a joke. You havent a clue |
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twiz20
Rip- You World
join:2002-04-09
DFDubb
| oops I walked into a strange neighborhood take me back. .
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garagerock
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join:2002-06-14
Louisville, KY | reply to morbo
Re: Their Best Customers are people who are stubbo
Excellent post. |
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