[opendtv] Re: News: Time Warner Announces Split From AOL
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 18:42:01 -0400
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> History will take note of the cultural wars that took place in
> TW/AOL after Steve Case bought Time Warner. Rather than becoming
> the marriage of web and content that Steve imagined, Time Warner
> led the anit-web backlash among the big media...
>
> Now both companies are struggling.
Seems to me that history has been kinder to Time Warner than AOL. AOL
was one of the early ISPs, and made the best of an era when access via
the commodity POTS telco link was still viable. So they could gather up
subscribers nationwide, leveraging off the ubiquitous telco POTS lines.
But now they have become one of zillions of web portals, as far as I can
tell.
Time Warner instead has the more scarce resource, the physical
broadband/cable network, and they are now better capable of providing
the ISP function, and can also competie directly with those telcos.
So even though they might have been on the "wrong side" of the debate
about putting more content on the web, for the foreseeable future, I
think they are the ones that landed on their feet.
Bert
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