| 'Bout Time From what I could see, AOL has always been a house-of-cards waiting to collapse. From their early days of advertising heavily and signing on boatloads of new subscribers without upgrading their infrastructure (read modem banks) sufficiently to their empty claims of being so "easy" (how many friends and relatives have you ended up helping get "their AOL" going, especially after a version upgrade), to their current desperate efforts to hold onto subscribers by convincing them to spend good money on features (such as parental control, pop-up blocker, anti-virus, etc.) that can be obtained elsewhere for less money, or even for free, or with far superior functionality at the same price. Eventually the uninformed do catch on! It just amazes and dismays me that it took this long for the scheme to collapse.
I, too, once signed up with AOL with a free trial to find out just what everyone was going ga-ga over. I really disliked the service, as it was too dopey and over-priced. And I, too, went through that most nerve-wracking of rituals known as trying to quite AOL. And after all the time lost and "emotional suffering" I experienced trying to help friends and family deal with AOL and all the nasty things its software did to their computers, I can only say on the day that the company (or T-W division) folds completely, "good riddance!" |
