ZDNET calls for firing of AOLhead Case.
www5.zdnet.com
"America Online is sick. Ironically, it seems the only way it can get well is to cut off its head."
"AOL should ax CEO Steve Case."
"In his last six months at the helm, Case has demonstrated a remarkable aim. He shoots himself squarely in the foot again and again with amazing accuracy. He makes stupid decisions, then implements them badly. Is it any wonder AOL is sweating under the heat of bad publicity and subscribers seemingly bent on revenge? Case screws
up so often, we may have to create a special AnchorDesk section,
dedicated to covering his near-daily blunders. Called "Dumb, Dumber and AOL."
And ...
"I don't get it! Case faces one explosive situation after another, yet won't take the time to think his solutions through. He's like a man sitting in a pool of gasoline who decides it would be a great time to light up a cigarette. I want to shout: Put the Bic down! Quit making an ash of yourself!"
"It's gotten so bad, AOL has become the butt of jokes on national TV. If it wants to stop being the butt, it needs to get a new head."
"AOL's board of directors should fire Steve Case. No, first it should force him to apologize to the stockholders and customers for his appalling stupidity and insensitivity. Then he should be fired."
"If AOL doesn't do it now, it will have to do it later. And by that time, the only person who will be an appropriate successor is Dr. Jack Kevorkian. If AOL waits too much longer, the only thing left to do will be to put it out of its misery."
- I told someone that the ridicule was coming, something that negates all that expensive hype, err advertising. For instance you can now
THROW VIRTUAL TOMATOES and EGGS AT AOL:
www5.zdnet.com
"But the almost daily outages and problems have soured many consumers,
who's rage has reached mythic proportions."
"In an attempt to cash in on the outrage, SegaSoft, a joint venture of Sega of America Inc. and CSK International Headquarters Inc., sponsored a contest that let users throw virtual tomatoes and eggs at the AOL World Wide Web site. SegaSoft's plan was to have users send in screen shots of their "destruction" and award $1,000 to one of them."
See Sega's "Trash AOL site" segasoft.com
- All while the suits continue:
"Judge orders AOL to stop seeking customers in Washington state." pcweek.com
- Just as AOL expenses are set to soar!
"AOL Will Pay Top Dollar to Lease 50,000 Modems"
wired.com
"AOL is paying top dollar for those modems -- it's likely to cost (the company) a dollar an hour for AOL members to get through on these leased modems. With AOL's own modems, it usually costs about 25 cents. The bottom line is that AOL is paying a lot of money for its users to be hooked up."
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