Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
Host:
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| reply to Nuts
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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daniyel
join:2001-05-10
Tucson, AZ
| reply to Maxo
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  |
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Nuts
join:2006-04-27
Forest, OH | reply to Karl Bode
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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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02
Host:
Road Runner
PC gaming GAMES
PC gaming Tech
| reply to Fatal Vector
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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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26
| reply to hayabusa3303
"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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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
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join:2005-06-29
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 ·QuantumVoice
 ·AT&T Southeast
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Maxo
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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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | I wonder which is more winable, the war in Iraq or the struggle to keep AOL afloat. |
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