To: Sam who wrote (6493 ) 12/18/1997 11:33:00 AM From: Tim Kenney Respond to
Well Sam, we are in more agreement than I thought. You admit those cable modems will be connected to cable company lines. So the argument become why people use AOL---Is it the "superb" content at slow and unreliable speeds or is it the fact that they have been inundated with AOL disks and think it is the simplest way to get online. I say it is the latter. With every cable company in the country advertising "plug this line in and get fast internet access" on local televion (like MediaOne already does in my area), it is not hard to imagine that many existing AOL consumers who have realized that AOL does not own the web, will switch over. BTW, are you not familiar with the recent Time Warner, US West Media joint venture? Probably not. The point is that AOL is an access provider and a very poor one. I have said all along that if they ever develop decent content, they may get to be a successful premium "channel" on the web. So far, they have not proven that they can.
