Which is more winable? in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17288085 en Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:55:27 EDT Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:55:27 EDT Re: Which is more winable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17292110 Karl Bode : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17292110 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:20:34 EDT Re: Which is more winable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17289794 daniyel : 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.

Good night AOL -- the NET wont miss you :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17289794 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:49:59 EDT Re: Which is more winable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17289723 Nuts : 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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17289723 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:34:51 EDT Re: Which is more winable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17288891 Karl Bode : 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).]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17288891 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:21:30 EDT Re: Which is more winable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17288653 Fatal Vector :

"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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17288653 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:46:36 EDT Re: Which is more winable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17288105 hayabusa3303 :
said by Maxo See Profile :

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 :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17288105 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:20:57 EDT Which is more winable? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17288085 Maxo : I wonder which is more winable, the war in Iraq or the struggle to keep AOL afloat.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,17288085 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:16:51 EDT