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@Home Post Mortem: Who or What Killed @Home?
bofus writes: "This article from CNet points to AT&T taking over the @Home board as the nail in the coffin for @Home. It starts out as a tale of possible corporate espionage, with a top techie from AT&T moving to @Home and then back to AT&T, but the guy in question seems to have done nothing but good for @Home while he was there."
Cowboy Neal on the grassy knoll.
Back and to the left...
ISP going under? Go back to college! Sure it might cost a few more dollars a month, but you also get more bandwidth. =D
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@Home Post Mortem: Who or What Killed @Home?
Sorry, it was me, I didn't realize that letting my monthly payment slip a few weeks would have such a big impact on the company. I really feel bad about it though.
They still need to come back and put the screws back into my chasis that they took out.
It's rather obvious who killed @Home if you just think about it...
It was Colonel Mustard with a candle in the library. Duh.
Are you suggesting that @Home's purchase of Excite and trying to profit from maintaining and providing a "portal" service was not a sound business decision?
Obviously you never discovered why the dot-com business took off so well...
...er, nevermind.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
When I would dial up, I would have the strangest sense that I absolutely had to get done what I was doing, ignoring the kids and wife. I just couldn't stand disconnecting and then redialing later. Now I don't mind if I get interrupted for any reason at
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
Step 1: Build business. Dominate broadband.
Step 2: Get caught up in dot com mania. Spend 6 billion on dot com in search of a business model.
Step 3: Spend a few years trying to recover from step 2.
Step 4: Chapter 11
It says on home.com :
Excite@Home
The Leader in Broadband
Then right below that it says:
Excite@Home Reduces workforce as operations wind down.
Now this is a company with some intelligence! Maybe they should instead put up a black band (of mourning) like on be.com...
I don't need a car!
I don't DO any of those things, and neither do most of my friends. Put yourself in an average agorophobic person's shoes, and think about what you just said:
Shopping: 20 minutes of driving to the mall via car == 6 hours walking.
Why would your average person drive all the way to the mall when there are plenty of convenience stores within walking distance, and you can pretty much order anything by catalog anyway? You can't underestimate the importance of exercise, something which driving will never be able to replicate.
Mail use: 15 minutes to drive to the post office, 4 hours walking.
Why would I ever go to the post office? If something gets shipped to me and I miss it, I'll just do a chargeback on my credit card and let FedX try to deliver it again.
Research: 10 minutes to drive to the library == 3 hours to walk there, 4 hours to walk back with an armload of books.
Once again, I would probably just make up facts like every other respectable college student before I tried to drive to a library. I mean, who does their research in a library? And who needs to do research anyway? Everything I need to know, I learned in kindergarten.
Please realize that people like you who depend on your cars for everything are a minority. There is a market for big bloated SUVs in your demographic, sure, but my point was that this demographic wants to jog around until their feet bleed more than GM thinks, and it is market forces that killed the Pinto.
"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he deems himself your master."