AOL Time Warner Earnings (Q2 2002)

[Mad Scientist]

Listen to the conference call here. (http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/9/19939.html)

[Psycho Fox]

Wow it sounds like the same BS IBM spewed some years ago. We can get the deparments to help each other good luck seeing as they currently can't even communicate with each other let alone coordinate. WBA can't help anyone but AOL-TW, AOL can't help anyone but AOL-TW and so on. This is the same problem IBM faced and still tring to correct 10 years and countless CEOs later that they can coordinate only up and down the chain of command not side ways.

Really for their plan to work AOL-TW would have to take a back seat and let the deparments do their own thing while they oversee everything and only get involved when it is called for and set a universal vision (misson statment).

And AOL isn't down becouse they stoped marketing it in europe or any of the other reasons it is down becouse of strong competiton end of story.

[sun]

I believe that Aol is down because demand for their services is down...I have heard from many, and this is discussed here, that they throw people off the net with no warning, have a lot of pop up ads that people hate, and most important, they may have lied about how much money they were making..If the latter is ture, they will not be an eleven dollar stock, they will become a five dollar stock. It is too bad, so many, have lost so much in this market....

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by oldtoonguy

I believe that Aol is down because demand for their services is down...I have heard from many, and this is discussed here, that they throw people off the net with no warning, have a lot of pop up ads that people hate, and most important, they may have lied about how much money they were making..

Now, I'm not sure about the "lying about money" thing (hey, I'm not a super-genius at stocks and economics and stuff like that), but you're right about throwing people off the net without warning and the overuse of pop up ads. Believe me, I've had AOL before, and now I don't because they booted my account in April 2000. :mad:

Another thing, the Internet sucked when it came to AOL. I was fine with getting onto keywords, but whenever I entered a website, however, I kept receiving the Error Message of Death, and I had to keep logging back in over and over again.

I'm glad I got a cable modem and switched over to @Home (before they went bankrupt, of course). Now I don't have to mess with Steve Case's fascist regime.

[sun]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist


Now, I'm not sure about the "lying about money" thing (hey, I'm not a super-genius at stocks and economics and stuff like that), but you're right about throwing people off the net without warning and the overuse of pop up ads. Believe me, I've had AOL before, and now I don't because they booted my account in April 2000. :mad:

Another thing, the Internet sucked when it came to AOL. I was fine with getting onto keywords, but whenever I entered a website, however, I kept receiving the Error Message of Death, and I had to keep logging back in over and over again.

I'm glad I got a cable modem and switched over to @Home (before they went bankrupt, of course). Now I don't have to mess with Steve Case's fascist regime. This is the point I was trying to meke, AOL, has treated many of its customers like dirt, and they(AOL) doesn't even care....It has been written in computer columns in newspapers, and talked about...People stay with them, because they get used to them, like never leaving a bank, that you you have an account with....When they bought Time =Warner, I was very suspect, about the quality of the new company...Now, execs from Time Warner are going to be running it...I think it is too late, I kow if I get a server, it won't be AOL

[Pilmedium]

The significant decline in the stock price will hurt all the departments, so it is not good. I am still with AOL because my parents will not switch. They do not care about disconnections, pop-up ads, error messages, etc.