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Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...?
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To: Stratajema who wrote (235)10/6/1996 3:39:00 AM
From: Kashish King   of 13594
 
I hate to thrash your brain back and forth but check out my response:

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Brian is essentially trying to make the case that mom-and-pop service providers could be in trouble but that has nothing to do with AOL's future prospects; that's an issue between AT&T and the small service providers.

His second point is that service providers like AT&T will not want to be creating content. That is exactly the point. There are thousands upon thousands of independent companies and individuals creating web content using a vast array of tools designed specifically for that purpose. Contrast that with a proprietary service provider with one browser that they control and for which they create all of content using their tools. You could not even conceive of a worse approach. Even in the complete absence of the internet that model sucked.

There is no future in their concept never mind the organization itself. CompuServe and Prodigy have the same brain-dead approach but AOL captured market share with a better browser. None of them bothered to make their interface or protocols an open standard and extensible enough to graft onto the internet. To add insult to injury they are now claiming to be the internet-plus.
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