Re: Apple II Forum on AOL closing

[cplater@rattlehead.pass.wayne.edu (Charles A. Plater)]

DialTone95 (dialtone95@aol.com) wrote:
: Why should AOL support a platform which at best would give them 10,000
: subscribers.. (Give or take 5 or 10 thousand, who cares) when they have
Why?  Because at the time the A2 software was discontinued, A2 subscribers
made up a large portion of their membership
: nearly 5 million members now? 10,000 out of 5,000,000 means about 1/5 of 1
: percent of their customers.. AOL is completely graphical now, and the GS
: and Apple // software does not have the capability to do it.. the Apple //
: couldn't do the graphics needed period, and the Apple //gs would be able
: to crudely do the 256+ color graphics.. so tell me they should do a
: complete rewrite of the software for probably about 25% of their 10,000
: Apple users who own GS's?! Thats rediculous, it makes no sense at all! And
Seeing that the direction they have gone in (ie. web browser, etc) I would
agree with you.
: technologically speaking the GS probably wouldn't be able to do the needed
: graphics without a Second Sight card.. a stock GS doing 640x200 graphics
: or whatever the stock graphics modes are in 16 colors just isn't going to
: work.. so if they made it for Second Sight cards we are probably talking
: about maybe 1,000 people, of which how many would subscribe to AOL? Well,
: there is your reason why the Apple is not supported anymore.  Even users
: who cannot run Windows are being shut off to AOL, and Commedore 64/128
: users lost access same time as the Apple // did.. its not like Apple is
: being percecuted... All Commedore 64/128, 8088, 286, Tandy, etc.. users
: are also being shut out..

: DT

I'm kind of glad that AOL has shunned Apple II people (a large part of their
membership at one point) because it has make Apple II users choose actual
internet providers, instead of using an AOL front end as a crutch.
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