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To: steve lipson who wrote (10792)	7/28/1998 10:30:00 AM
From: Yikes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13594

Steve, Funny how you should mention the QWERT keyboard as an example. I type in Dvorak! But to stick to the issue. AOL and its competitors are all selling transistors, so to speak. If two products are similar, people can easily switch between them. It is the same principal that allowed IE to gain market share against Netscape. After awhile, people need a big reason to change, not just an opportunity. Your statement also works against AOL. AOL only has 12 milion subscribers right now, compare to 50 million Internet users. It will probably never convince the current non-AOL users to use AOL in the future. And the growth of home PC will saturate soon. PC is not like TV, probably around 50% of all household will eventually have PC's. There is plenty of room for the competition to move in. Yikes