cbrain
join:2000-05-21
Silver Spring, MD | So anticipated was the news that the wires were...
wow. |
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emcglynn
join:2000-11-05
Pelham, NH
| Error: * please provide catchy title
I STILL do not get why anyone would want AOL....
But I think the move to actually include content from CNN/TW and HBO was a pretty good idea. OK, actually pretty much a "duh!" idea.... but nice to see they thought of it.
On the whole.... yawn. Sooner or later people will wake up realize that AOL is just a cheesy facade over information, utilities and content people really want. |
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swilliams
join:1999-09-07
Mount Prospect, IL
 ·AT&T Midwest
| How can a business grossing $550 million
plus a month lose money as badly as they are?
According to a Newsweek article here: »www.msnbc.com/news/841749.asp - AOL has 37 million subscribers.
Assume say, $15 a month from each subscriber, that's $555 million a month for gross revenues, excluding any money derived from advertising or any other partnerships they have.
How can a company gross at least $6,660,000,000 a year yet lose money year after year? It just boggles my mind. |
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lostnthwoods
join:2001-12-03
Arcadia, OK
| Finally, what we've all been waiting for........
Yipppppeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! AOL is finally coming with what we've all been complaining about forever. I personally love AOL for when I need to do my mail or entertainment on the web. They'll take off and pass everyone else if the comeptition doesn't get on their toes because American Online brings it all together in one place instead of having to install this and that all over the place. |
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Tropix
@optonline.net | reply to swilliams
Re: How can a business grossing $550 million
$6,650,000,000 of the $6,660,000,000 is used on making AOL coasters. |
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FiberNut
join:2000-08-08
Atlanta, GA
|  reply to lostnthwoods
Re: Finally, what we've all been waiting for........
No Thanks I prefer the Real Internet, not a stupid GUI that shows me what AOL programmers want me to see; I prefer a program that actually will uninstall completely from any computer if it is no longer wanted; I won't tolerate a service that completely changes the functioning of and alters the ability/capability (if any) of viewing attachments or going to certain sites from within its own email program. NO WAIT: AOL isn't even an actual email program!!! Forgot to add that!... NOPE thanks anyway not for me drive through please. (To last poster: read the post that appears before yours, AGAIN!)
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"...there goes all the bandwidth!"(Current DSL'rs upon hearing that AOL is providing 'Broadband' access) |
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hiitsme
@198.3.x.x
| Goodbye AOL
They're toast.
Read the article if you haven't. "Dial up isn't going away".
Dial up *IS* going away. Sooner than later.
So, they still say dial up is their future.
But, we're going to offer a little bit of broadband. But they don't say how they're going to get their customers onto broadband.
What are they offering that anyone else isn't?
Exclusive videos? Exclusive content? I doubt it. I don't want to watch tv on my computer.
My parents use aol. They hate it. Too much spam, too many popups. |
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linuxgeek$
Premium
join:2002-09-13
Computer
| reply to lostnthwoods
Re: Finally, what we've all been waiting for........
said by lostnthwoods  :
Yipppppeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! AOL is finally coming with what we've all been complaining about forever. I personally love AOL for when I need to do my mail or entertainment on the web. They'll take off and pass everyone else if the comeptition doesn't get on their toes because American Online brings it all together in one place instead of having to install this and that all over the place.
i take it you're a beginner
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[text was edited by author 2002-12-03 13:42:57] |
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winsyrstrife
River City Bounce
Premium
join:2002-04-30
Brooklyn, NY
clubs:
| said by linuxgeek$ :
said by lostnthwoods :
Yipppppeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! AOL is finally coming with what we've all been complaining about forever. I personally love AOL for when I need to do my mail or entertainment on the web. They'll take off and pass everyone else if the comeptition doesn't get on their toes because American Online brings it all together in one place instead of having to install this and that all over the place.
i take it you're a beginner
Most people are.
Aren't most of the members of this site somehow involved in tech end user/desktop support, be it PC or MAC? There will always be a niche for AOL. Some people are struggling to manage their PCs.
"Was that left or right click?"
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Dennis
Premium,Mod
join:2001-01-26
Algonquin, IL
·AT&T Yahoo
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| reply to hiitsme
Re: Goodbye AOL
Dial up will not be going away for a little while. While broadband is the future, I'd rather use my AOL account to dial up while on the road instead of paying 9.99 for a days use of broadband in a hotel.
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Misrepresentation of the truth is still a lie. |
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Orwell1984
@rr.com | reply to lostnthwoods
Re: Finally, what we've all been waiting for........
I am suprised. You seem rather smart for an AOL user. This is a company that markets themselves as a haven for the ignorant and lazy. No thanks AOL I think I will stay on the real internet. |
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darthur2000
join:2002-01-02
Middletown, CT
clubs:
| Just what everyone needs
This is just what everyone needs. One single company that will control every piece of information that they receive. I hope all the people who use AOL like having a handful of people deciding for them what is important and what information they are allowed to have access to. ALL HAIL THE NEW BIG BROTHER. |
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insomniac
Oh Yeah
Premium
join:2002-09-22
Naperville, IL
clubs: | reply to linuxgeek$
Re: Finally, what we've all been waiting for........
Judging from the extra N in that post that many AOLers tack on, calling it "American" Online instead, I'd imagine so. |
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wwdubbia
join:2002-06-03
Clinton, NY | AOL is the WalMart of the Internet
AOL is to the internet what WalMart is to retail.
Appeal to the lowest common denominator. |
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pcgirl
join:2002-10-01
Florissant, MO
| reply to insomniac
Re: Finally, what we've all been waiting for........
said by insomniac :
Judging from the extra N in that post that many AOLers tack on, calling it "American" Online instead, I'd imagine so.
LOL...I'm glad I'm not the only one who has heard several AOL users call it "American" Online. |
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cybermud
join:2000-08-25
Chicago, IL
| reply to insomniac
said by insomniac :
Judging from the extra N in that post that many AOLers tack on, calling it "American" Online instead, I'd imagine so.
That is indeed a sad case of ineptitude on what seems to be a national scale, based on my experience. It frightens me that so many subscribers can neither spell nor pronounce the name of the service they subscribe to. |
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MrWhippit
You Big Dummy Gimmie Back My Bandwith
Premium
join:2002-04-04
Philadelphia, PA
| Ahh
"AOL 9.0 will be far more video-oriented says Miller, offering users exclusive content from the Time Warner media empire"
The better to go over the upcoming download caps with!
Oh joy and rapture!
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"You have to dare to suck to be great"Ricky Martin |
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jethrogump
Premium
join:2001-03-02
Mesquite, TX
| Re
This must mean they are going to resort to what famous failed ISP Cais eventually resorted to:
AOL Porno " its still the webs best content revenue earner"
Also AOL ain’t no Walmart in any way shape or form. Walmart got as big as it is by being Cheap Cheap Cheap and screwing a few vendors and lenders along the way.
Try to get Walmart to send you an install disk. You either have to ask the manager or pay for it if you order it online. No Freebies from old Walmart.
I call this the difference in a Bully "Walmart" and a pussyfied Wimp " AOL" funny lots of Aol employees are light in the gonad area.
Third as far as residential broadband wars SBC in the Texas region hands down wins considering price for service, customer care and technical support. SBC has its act together now |
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garagerock
Premium
join:2002-06-14
Louisville, KY | 'we missed the first wave of broadband'
Really? You think?
What they were really saying is "we hadn't figured a way to force our content and our content only down the throats of our fat-assed, soccer-mom demographic yet"
Idiots. |
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blah194
join:2002-03-04
Lake Charles, LA | reply to wwdubbia
Best analogy I have heard
AOL = internet for dummies. |
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