Because it isn't clear that AOL will have the high end broadband experience in position when it starts blooming. AOL is an easy front? Easier than what? Yahoo? AOL doesn't cater anything. I can get to something faster in any other way in comparison to the crazy quilt quagmire that is AOL. Do you crawl around AOL? At a 10% premium it sounds very public, pay more for less, but the neighbors have it and you must keep up with them. The proof of good is if everyone has it. Consider Windows.
Years ago I had AOL. I knew little about ISPs because they were new entities. I didn't know what to expect, but I knew enough to expect more than they delivered. It was the worst service of any kind that I had ever received. I went to the wall with them, but finally quit. I was like most of the 15 million. Just another fool afraid to change. There's a limit to the garbage anyone will swallow, so I changed to ELNK. It was a revelation. AOL had done a blitz krieg and captured the public whim, but they don't have anything to hold it. I recently examined what they are doing now. Same old decrepit set up. How the dumbbell public goes on with that is incomprehensible. Makes you believe in the value of Madison Avenue brainwashing. Mostly it is a testament to public fear of change and comfort in junk and at a premium. They have chat. Chat is a fad which will die in infamy. Chat is the equivalent of Rap. When people discover broadband they will drop AOL fast, so fast that AOL will have to crawl in the trail and tradition of NSCP to the government in order to get them to choose AOL as the winner, the people's choice.
ATHM is still a primitive entity at best. They haven't even scratched the surface of the potential of broadband. I'm thinking of broadband down, not up as in broadband interactive. It will take years to get it in place, but when we have broadband interactive at 10 mbps, the world will dramatically change in every aspect. T understands this and is scrambling to take advantage of it. AOL understands that they have nothing, so they are scrambling to take advantage of others, the hallmark of the glorious triumph of the little guy over the evil capitalist empire. |
