Now Again You Can Make Android App AOL relevant again:AOL made a minor splash news Thursday with its new Android App HTML 5 and update the site. HTML 5 site, mobile.aol.com, optimized for the latest generation of smartphones, and Android With IOS operating system, both of which provide support for HTML 5 for rich content and location-based services. Yes, but anyone use AOL anymore?As it turned out, they do. AOL is actually receives estimated 28 million visits daily, and their goal of software is, if not universally, almost instant standard. As eWeek says
The company, which makes every effort to make Internet content company, makes a big bet on mobile phone to compete for eyeballs with Google, Facebook and Twitter.
AOL, however, not Google, MSN, Yahoo, or. Yahoo, for example, despite the loss of market share for Google remains a popular portal to the 400 million visitors a day, dwarfing the traffic AOL. Can App or a mobile-friendly site change that?
I do not really like the idea of monopoly or oligopoly, but it will take some convincing to get me to download the AOL Service, and start using the service provider AOL. Services optimized for mobile devices include news, weather, traffic, and movie information, but hardly revolutionary. All the major portals and mobile-friendly sites and AOL Android App only provides access to AOL Mail and Mapquest. The second application, AOL daily Finance, allows users to get financial news and stock quotes, but again this was done in other countries.
If I download the application, I want to be really useful for me. This application is only useful for people who have already invested in AOL Mail and related properties. This, of course, will not bring new members into its ranks.
If AOL to throw in the towel? No, of course not. Competition is good. But come one, people - give me that many other services do not do well already. Do something interesting with IM, video or audio chat, or use "You've Got Mail" brand, which still resonates with the 30 - and 40-something. Several people have left AOL for quite vividly. I bet they could come up with something better than the other e-mail application to e-mail that not many people use. You want the eye to your site and ads you serve? I'm afraid this is not going to do it.
