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To: Jay who wrote (1832)2/24/1997 12:03:00 AM
From: Kashish King   of 13594
 
I think you missed my points completely so let me restate my case as simply as possible. In order to maximize your connection speed while minimizing costs, you are going to want to physically connect using a cable connection, high-speed telephone connection or whatever the local phone company or cable company has to offer. This should not have anything to do with the information services you use and if that isn't clear then hit Next because you are wasting your time and don't understand the importance of a generic network connection to each and every home independent of current or future online services.

So if you are still with me the generic Internet "jack" makes sense, what you are left with is who has the best services with the most easy-to-use interface? Because AOL is will be competing with millioins of developers using standard tools to build these services, versus their own proprietary stuff, their products are doomed to fall farther and farther behind the competition. AOL has to do all of the work from scratch because it isn't using industry standard tools. To put it in layman's terms: THE AOL INTERFACE WILL SUCK BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION COMPARED TO WHAT JAVA BASED INTERNET SITES WILL SOON BE DELIVERING.

The third and final point is that nobody in their right mind want's to be restricted to a set of hand-picked services selected by AOL when they can select from a universe of independent sites or use one or more super-sites which organize and compartmentalize the entire Internet.

By using the Internet and the familiar companies you use already for access (phone or cable) the only decision you have to make is what information services you need. Is your bank on AOL? How about the local thearters? What about local businesses that you use? OK, how about national chains?

Anybody who thinks AOL is anything but a dead-end model doesn't think very much. They are a Stone Age novelty and its starting to wear pretty thin. The management is a bunch of technically inept idiots.
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