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On 28/02/14 08:47, Stroller wrote: |
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> On Wed, 26 February 2014, at 8:29 pm, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> * Netscape (under AOL) aimed at becoming a pseudo-OS on top of Windows. |
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>> We know how that turned out. |
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> You appear to be underestimating it - whilst the AOL suite was hated by many of those "forced to use it" (I guess in the late 90's or early 00's), it is / was so massively popular with grannies that it is still available today. |
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> Dial-up division is still AOL's most profitable division, earning them $500m per year,[1] and I would attribute the popularity of the AOL desktop suite to this. |
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> I've seen this profitability attributed to "misinformed customers" who "don't know they no-longer need AOL now they have DSL", but having been told by a number of people that all they want out of their computer is their AOL, I find it had to agree with that characterisation. |
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> AOL's desktop suite has certainly not been a failure for the company. |
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> Stroller. |
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> [1] http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/02/18/aol-dial-up-profits/ |
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This must be a US -only thing since I've never even heard of AOL |
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desktop/suite before, even while lived through the 90's and the bulletin |
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board times (as being a SysOp myself ;-) |
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