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AOL Reports Its First Drop In Subscribers
Flamesplash writes "Yahoo! is running this AP story about AOL's first drop in subscribers. 170,000 US subscribers have left AOL in their fourth quarter of 2002, apparently due to users becoming more comfortable with broadband connections. It should be noted though that 'AOL has said it has stopped simply signing up new customers for the sake of counting them.'"
maybe this time ????
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Now this makes me wonder.. It is 2003 and we could not make the shuttle land successfully.
The whole moon landing thing (it was decades ago and much more difficult than this) now seems to be a made up story of cold war era....
My name is Smaol
...given the events of the day.
what a useless post, thanks for giving an opinion when you start your argument with "I have never seen nor have any f'ing clue what we are talking about".
Was it Oscar Wilde that said:
No-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence|taste of the American people.
You guys have got some seriously bad reputation in the rest of the world.
Obese, loud, ignorant, right-wing, unstylish, Christian, narrow minded. Need I go on?
Oh, and that FUCKING AWFUL nasal whining drone of an accent
Shut the hell up, cockmaster. He wasn't even arguing. He was asking what makes AOL so easy. He didn't understand because, quite simply, he has never had a computer user not know how to use a "normal" ISP - even when they didn't know how to turn on the machine.
Is it that fucking hard to understand, dipshit?
S\/ck mY c0ck0rs you fUx0rS!!11!#$$@!
What fucking rock does someone live under that they havent' seen AOL, you useless puddle of fuckmustard? I thought he was the most clueless fuckstick on this board, but you just took the title assmaster.
"Religion - 1. n. The leading cause of war, death and complete idiocy in all of recorded history."
No, that would be liberalism/communism/socialism.
Pay attention to what happened to AOL last quarter. microsoft is next. The gnu/linux juggernaut can't be stopped. With gnu/linux penetrating the server rooms of businesses of all sizes, with the availability of StarOffice/OpenOffice/Simdesk/KDE 3/Kmail/Evolution, and all being developed as a workable solutions to xp/.net/office/exchange/whatever, microsoft is in deep sh*t. Add what is happening outside the US, with gnu/linux adoption and support by policy or law in many other nations.
Even product activation (and a subsequent reduction in "piracy") and forced licensing can only obfuscate the numbers for so long. The analysts have their heads in the sand.
Add to that the fact that the os and office suite are their only money makers, with all other divisions losing money...
Within the next two years microsoft will melt down over the final realization of what is really happening to their market share and future "growth" potential.
aol-time warner is imploding? Wait till you see the sh*t hit the fan when microsoft implodes.