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America Online started in 1985 as Quantum Computer
Services, offering Q-Link, an
online service with a graphical user interface for
Commodores; it expanded to include Apples (AppleLink) and Macs
in 1989 and Tandys and other DOS PCs (PC-Link) in 1991. As desktop
computers with Windows 3.1 starting becoming popular in 1993, AOL
seemed to concentrate on PC users, often releasing Windows versions
with version numbers higher than the Macintosh version.
Label from an AppleLink floppy.
It's more just the version number - it's the features. "Anywhere
access" to favorites, calendar, and contacts is available only with
6.0 and later on the PC (some of these features are included with
5.0 for OS X, but not all). Radio@AOL is also only available
on AOL 7.0 for Windows.
AOL also makes it hard to go back. Once you've used AOL for
Windows for a while, you can't go back to the Macintosh version
without reentering all of your new addresses and favorites from
your PC to your Mac.
Just like AOL's use of Internet Explorer helped IE become
dominant in the browser world, AOL's extended features that are
available only on Windows are helping Windows stay dominant. Often
AOL users won't buy a Mac because it doesn't offer the same
features that they currently enjoy with AOL 6 or 7 for Windows.
Luckily for Apple, AOL is fixing this. With the release of AOL
5.0 for Mac OS X, AOL is at least demonstrating that they see
the potential behind OS X - both in what it can do and what
money it can help them make. AOL is currently working on another
version, which is currently in beta and is freely downloadable to
all members at keyword beta. This version, known as "AOL 10.2",
includes almost everything that AOL 6 and 7 for the PC
includes.
AOL 10.2 is designed with OS X in mind.
For the first time ever, AOL's interface seems to actually
compliment the Mac OS X Aqua interface, and it should, since
this is the first "real" new version since AOL 5.0 came out.
Interestingly enough, AOL no longer uses Internet Explorer as
the browser within the AOL application. Now, it's Mozilla - and
it's fast. Pages load faster inside of AOL then they ever used to,
and they actually look nice - fonts are anti-aliased, and the
graphics load almost instantly. Another interesting thing is the
name change. Only in the about box does the new version of AOL
actually say "America Online"; everywhere else it is labeled simply
"AOL".
While I'm not saying that AOL is the best Internet provider out
there (far from it), I am saying that I am pretty impressed by
their latest Macintosh version. It may bring back a few of those
AOL users who switched to the PC version for its extra features.
