You'd rather Microsoft own it all? That's on the way to happening now. People have a very limited view of what's monopolistic and what isn't. AOL is not.
There seems to be a rampant limited view of reality... why do you care if AOL owns what you do watch on TV?? Microsoft has major investments in NBC. You prefer that? AOL will play what people want to watch, just like the media now. They have to.
What is AOL going to get split into? There's still Viacom, the Fox Group, and many, many other independent media providers that need to be online, and MindSpring/Earthlink, Excite@Home, and all the DSL providers left to join up with.
You forget: the average person is incompetent. They need help. AOL helps them. You may not be incompetent. Hence, you would choose not to use those services. The world wants immature. Face it.
I don't understand the "lack of in depth and technical attention". The client may seem hokey to us, but the technology behind it is the most sophisticated in the world. How's that for lack of attention?
Think, before you speak. Microsoft will control you way more than AOL will.
You'd rather Microsoft own it all? That's on the way to happening.
This is a limited view of reality... why do you care if AOL owns what you do watch on TV?? Microsoft has major investments in NBC. You prefer that.
What is AOL going to get split into? There's still Viacom, the Fox Group, and many, many other independent media providers that need to be online, and MindSpring/Earthlink, Excite@Home, and all the DSL providers left to join up with.
You forget: the average person is incompetent. They need help. AOL helps them. You may not be incompetent. Hence, you would choose not to use those services. The world wants immature. Face it.
You'd be hard pressed to consider the merger a "monopoly". There are many, many competitors remaining in the content distribution marketplace, and many combinations of companies still possible to provide similar products and services at a competitive price. The biggest thing that will come from this is true open access to Time Warner's cable system, something we all want and AT&T fears. Wow. Increased competition. That makes a monopoly?
You'll notice that AOL aggressively makes many of their services free for everyone to use, just not the cute little interface to content that few of us want anyway... its also unlikely that you would suddenly need an AOL account to view Time Warner content in the real world... but there are now online alternatives to get to them as well. Is that not what we as an online user community want? To push the world to conduct more of their lives in an online environment? Even if that environment is AOL for the time being until someone else finds the trick for getting the masses to collect?
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You'd rather Microsoft own it all? That's on the way to happening now. People have a very limited view of what's monopolistic and what isn't. AOL is not.
There seems to be a rampant limited view of reality... why do you care if AOL owns what you do watch on TV?? Microsoft has major investments in NBC. You prefer that? AOL will play what people want to watch, just like the media now. They have to.
What is AOL going to get split into? There's still Viacom, the Fox Group, and many, many other independent media providers that need to be online, and MindSpring/Earthlink, Excite@Home, and all the DSL providers left to join up with.
You forget: the average person is incompetent. They need help. AOL helps them. You may not be incompetent. Hence, you would choose not to use those services. The world wants immature. Face it.
I don't understand the "lack of in depth and technical attention". The client may seem hokey to us, but the technology behind it is the most sophisticated in the world. How's that for lack of attention?
Think, before you speak. Microsoft will control you way more than AOL will.
You'd rather Microsoft own it all? That's on the way to happening.
This is a limited view of reality... why do you care if AOL owns what you do watch on TV?? Microsoft has major investments in NBC. You prefer that.
What is AOL going to get split into? There's still Viacom, the Fox Group, and many, many other independent media providers that need to be online, and MindSpring/Earthlink, Excite@Home, and all the DSL providers left to join up with.
You forget: the average person is incompetent. They need help. AOL helps them. You may not be incompetent. Hence, you would choose not to use those services. The world wants immature. Face it.
You'd be hard pressed to consider the merger a "monopoly". There are many, many competitors remaining in the content distribution marketplace, and many combinations of companies still possible to provide similar products and services at a competitive price. The biggest thing that will come from this is true open access to Time Warner's cable system, something we all want and AT&T fears. Wow. Increased competition. That makes a monopoly?
You'll notice that AOL aggressively makes many of their services free for everyone to use, just not the cute little interface to content that few of us want anyway... its also unlikely that you would suddenly need an AOL account to view Time Warner content in the real world... but there are now online alternatives to get to them as well. Is that not what we as an online user community want?
To push the world to conduct more of their lives in an online environment? Even if that environment is AOL for the time being until someone else finds the trick for getting the masses to collect?