dullard
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- May 21, 2001
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There are numerous problems that I've noticed (note I haven't used the last couple of editions, so correct me if anything I say is outdated).
1) Biggest issue to me is price. $23.90 per month is their smallest price I saw on their website. I pay $6.50 a month (Alltel) for 20 hours and a nominal fee (which will never be as high as $23.90 a month) per hour after that. PeoplePC is $10.95 per month. People post here with dozens of other places which are all cheaper than AOL.
2) Bloated software. AOL has some of the biggest software bloat of any company and in the past has been very difficult to use without installing their software. Uninstalling it was even worse. One website (I forgot the link) keeps track of programs which leave resource hogging junk on your computer and AOL was #1.
3) Limited internet. I sure hope AOL has stopped this: for a long, long time everything you view must be AOL approved. New website you want to visit that all your friends visit? Tough luck, until it was AOL approved you couldn't view it. Blocked email is still a big problem from looking at posts above. Why would I pay ~4 times as much for LIMITED internet?
4) Detest for their marketing. Sorry but if a company angers me with their marketing, I don't want to try their product. I have a personal pet peeve for something that is repeatedly "new, improved, and the best product ever" over and over again. To me if you keep shouting that you are improved, then your last product must have NOT been the best product possible. But if you think back a year, their last product was marketed as being the best possible. I'm not sure if I'm being clear here. Take for example Mac users and how they feel about their OS. Or for a second example think of those Stacker weight loss products. When Stacker first came out commercials said that no product could ever lose more weight faster than with Stacker. Then Stacker 2 came out and suddenly nothing works better than Stacker 2 (heck now they are on Stacker 3). But wait, if no product could ever lose more weight faster than Stacker, what is this Stacker 2? I could go on and on with more examples - AOL is the king of them.
1) Biggest issue to me is price. $23.90 per month is their smallest price I saw on their website. I pay $6.50 a month (Alltel) for 20 hours and a nominal fee (which will never be as high as $23.90 a month) per hour after that. PeoplePC is $10.95 per month. People post here with dozens of other places which are all cheaper than AOL.
2) Bloated software. AOL has some of the biggest software bloat of any company and in the past has been very difficult to use without installing their software. Uninstalling it was even worse. One website (I forgot the link) keeps track of programs which leave resource hogging junk on your computer and AOL was #1.
3) Limited internet. I sure hope AOL has stopped this: for a long, long time everything you view must be AOL approved. New website you want to visit that all your friends visit? Tough luck, until it was AOL approved you couldn't view it. Blocked email is still a big problem from looking at posts above. Why would I pay ~4 times as much for LIMITED internet?
4) Detest for their marketing. Sorry but if a company angers me with their marketing, I don't want to try their product. I have a personal pet peeve for something that is repeatedly "new, improved, and the best product ever" over and over again. To me if you keep shouting that you are improved, then your last product must have NOT been the best product possible. But if you think back a year, their last product was marketed as being the best possible. I'm not sure if I'm being clear here. Take for example Mac users and how they feel about their OS. Or for a second example think of those Stacker weight loss products. When Stacker first came out commercials said that no product could ever lose more weight faster than with Stacker. Then Stacker 2 came out and suddenly nothing works better than Stacker 2 (heck now they are on Stacker 3). But wait, if no product could ever lose more weight faster than Stacker, what is this Stacker 2? I could go on and on with more examples - AOL is the king of them.
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