  MaxoYour tax dollars at work.Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL | Which is more winable? I wonder which is more winable, the war in Iraq or the struggle to keep AOL afloat. | |
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| Re: Which is more winable? said by Maxo:I wonder which is more winable, the war in Iraq or the struggle to keep AOL afloat. Both will sink about then same time..lol  | |
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"Farsighted leadership" my ass. If they hadn't been soaking "members" dry for Net access and had been more responsive with customer service and correcting problems in the chat rooms, as well as pissing them off by terminating/suspending accounts for no real reason at the same time, thereby causing them a giant hassle to get back on, they never would have lost so many "members" to begin with.
They were just interested in raping the "members" for all they could while giving them as little as possible. | |
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| Re: Which is more winable? I didn't see much leadership, period. They just figured out a few months ago they wanted to be an advertising driven content portal after four years of different attempts at other ideas....
For the past six years they've been jerking the steering wheel back and forth like a drunk.
At least finally they've picked a solution somewhere between being a broadband reseller and being Yahoo (they chose being Yahoo). | |
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Forest, OH | Re: Which is more winable? I never understand why with RoadRunner, AOL, and TimeWarner, they couldn't figure out how to make the 3 work together. It seems like they still treat each one as on independent company | |
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| Re: Which is more winable? I've been asking that question for five years now.
There were some anti-competitive portions of the AOL-Time Warner merger that tied their hands on some of that stuff, but I mean really - a massive media house with seas of content, multiple cable networks, national backbones, deep pockets - and they still couldn't figure out how to transition to the broadband world.
The real problem was the old guard at TW thought AOL was a joke and there was no communication between the two. | |
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| | | Reasons for AOL ship sinking.
1. They forgot about Broadband, or really they loved the dial up profit so much, they didnt want to invest in broadband.
2. Their ad based service is going to do what AOL is so good at, fail.
I think, with what they had, 29million members, they could have spread broadband out like candy, and right now they would be looking down at Comcast, SBC, Cox, Verizon at the top of the pole.
They liked the profit, and it went away, just like they will.
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join:2001-09-01
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kudos:1 | Does this mean no more AOL coasters? That will be good news to the landfills and bad news to the USPS accountants.
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| | | Re: Does this mean no more AOL coasters?
You can still find AOL disks, most notably at Wal Mart. They just dont send them out as much in the mail. | |
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join:2001-09-01
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kudos:1 | Re: Does this mean no more AOL coasters? I know that, you missed the point. If they (AOL) transition from being an ISP to nothing more than an ad-driven media portal, then no need for disks any more?
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| | | | | Re: Does this mean no more AOL coasters?
Not true. You still need the client software to access services and chats, including radio and email. | |
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| | | | | | Re: Does this mean no more AOL coasters? Radio is available direct from radio.aol.com its free as well. | |
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join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | Re: Does this mean no more AOL coasters? and email is available from www.AOL.com as well - for free. | |
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join:2001-09-01
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kudos:1 | said by Fatal Vector:Not true. You still need the client software to access services and chats, including radio and email. Well, time will tell. If they are portal only, then you can download the system since you do not need the dialer section to get in and the main system could be slowly downloaded as needed/a bit at a time.
But then again, this IS AOL who had a good thing going but messed it up (I bailed in the early 90's).
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| | | said by RayW:That will be good news to the landfills and bad news to the USPS accountants. Man! I haven't gotten one of those in ages. They still do them, huh? 
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join:2001-09-01
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kudos:1 | Re: Does this mean no more AOL coasters? Yeah, I got one last week. | |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Free content? Free content?
then why does AOL music want my credit card? I wouldn't mind viewing/listening to ads to get that free. . . .
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They want your credit card because some of the services are "premium" content and they want to make sure you pay. The only thing free is their basic stuff like e mail and chats. They'll give you AOL radio, but it's low bitrate mono crap where they used to give you the whole high bitrate stereo.
Now, if you want high bitrate stereo, you have to pay for it. | |
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| | aol is still internet on training wheels
there are bunch of leeches sucking the blood out of members.
just go away aoloser | |
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join:2005-10-27
Matamoras, PA | AOL software to Jim Miller... AOL software to Jim Miller:
"GOODBYE!"
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 koma3504AdvocatePremium
join:2004-06-22
North Richland Hills, TX | AOhelL The only reason they stay afloat as it is.
IS the tactic they have of not letting you cancel service.
BLah Blah yes your account has been cancled reference #254698 but your bank account keeps getting charged.
It's time they put AOL out of its missery.
Rant.
They filter stuff so bad that it took me half hour to get dial-up numbers for SBC using there service at a client's
Residents. I know i should have taken them with me,
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join:2002-08-04
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