Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : America On-Line: will it survive ...? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brent D. Beal who wrote (6476)	12/17/1997 6:00:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13594

Hi Brent; Seems a lot of people have over looked the coming cable modems and web TV, an area were AOL won't have a place to sit..and it will start capturing a large market share of the nubies that AOL feeds on , with dimishing newbies, and with her huge churn rate I can picture the reaction the first time she doesn't proclame another million or so subscibers, added to her list..which soon could be hard to come by.. Jim

To: Brent D. Beal who wrote (6476)	12/18/1997 9:23:00 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 13594

When are bears going to realize that cable access itself isn't gonna bring down AOL. Cable is an access medium with increased bandwith over a modem. As you can connect to AOL with a modem, you can connect to AOL with a cable modem. guess where all the most tech savvy, most-likely-to-buy something online crowd is going to be in a year or so? One thing they won't be doing is wading through all of AOL's cyber junk mail. . . The most tech savvy aren't using AOL right now anyway. That is not AOL's market. Cable has a long way to go before "Joe consumer" decides to plop down $40 for access charges only. As for junk mail, a simple preferences update on AOL will get rid of 99% of the spam that goes around. Yet people still fail to realize this.... S.