The article describes being able to feel different levels of pressure in addition to different temperatures. It sounds like an impressive level of feedback.
Anybody want to take bets on how long it takes for a Linux dist. to be built for it?
You make a good point. There IS still exclussive content. Specific games, chats with celebrities, third-party or partner sites (the WB loves promoting their shows through AOL exclussives), as well as good tools, like their billpay options or, like you mentioned, company research.
The marketing push has always been the exclussive content, though. It's just odd to see them flip on it, when the alternative is marketing its strength as a one-stop Internet shop for useful daily-use tools, when so many user-based initiatives are turning up every day that are easier, more powerful, and less expensive. (If not completely free.)
It just seems like a harder sell to convince people to buy the toolkit than to join the club.
I thought the entire point of subscribing to AOL, aside from the scorn of your company's IT department, was that you were privy to AOL's hot and exclussive content.
So now they're delivering 'exclussive' content for free, whatever that means. What does that leave for customers who are paying twice as much money for half as much service?
As far as I can tell, the only thing left for the subscribers to get is the shaft.
So someone comes up with a remarkably bad idea. We understand this, especially when non-Tech Savvy people hop onto a tech buzz-word for no reason other than it's a tech buzz-word. It normally ends badly.
But isn't it easier to say, "Oops," than, "Shlasdot are teh ebil!"
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Anybody want to take bets on how long it takes for a Linux dist. to be built for it?
It'll be interesting to see if this gets as heavy press as the compromised Mastercard accounts.
The marketing push has always been the exclussive content, though. It's just odd to see them flip on it, when the alternative is marketing its strength as a one-stop Internet shop for useful daily-use tools, when so many user-based initiatives are turning up every day that are easier, more powerful, and less expensive. (If not completely free.)
It just seems like a harder sell to convince people to buy the toolkit than to join the club.
I thought the entire point of subscribing to AOL, aside from the scorn of your company's IT department, was that you were privy to AOL's hot and exclussive content. So now they're delivering 'exclussive' content for free, whatever that means. What does that leave for customers who are paying twice as much money for half as much service? As far as I can tell, the only thing left for the subscribers to get is the shaft.
So someone comes up with a remarkably bad idea. We understand this, especially when non-Tech Savvy people hop onto a tech buzz-word for no reason other than it's a tech buzz-word. It normally ends badly. But isn't it easier to say, "Oops," than, "Shlasdot are teh ebil!"