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

To: Sam who wrote (10770)	7/27/1998 9:41:00 AM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13594

AOL halted. bid 112. Greg

To: Sam who wrote (10770)	7/27/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: Yikes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13594

I guess that depends on what your consider the "market." If we go by the estimates on the number of internet users...that averages in around 50-55 million. If you take total subscribers for AOL (AOL, CompuServe, ICQ) you get around 25 million subscribers. Doing the quick calcualation, that comes in around 50%. What is this 'total subscribers' crap?! AOL cannot target ICQ users for the advertising, i.e. it doesn't know if an ICQ user is a sports fan in order to show the user sports related advertisement. Also, ICQ is a free service with no real way for a user to terminate an account. I tried ICQ over two years ago, I bet my account is still active. You can't count ICQ as part of the 'market'. Again, AOL can't create a monopoly like Windows OS. Every PC is forced to run Windows95/NT because most software are written for it. But every service provided by AOL can be duplicated, including the user-friendly packaging. Yikes