Remember how much everyone loved to hate  AOL at the turn of the century? AOL offered bloated software, piles of unwanted installation discs, a walled garden of content, an overloaded newbie network, and a pricey dial-up service.

AOL has changed a lot since then, even though it's still here to kick around. But who needs to pick on AOL when we have Apple's  iTunes?

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The status of Apple's iTunes today bears an uncanny resemblance to the dominance, influence, and nagging problems that AOL had in early 2000, when the ISP boasted 26.7 million paying subscribers and Steve Case was the Internet star of the moment.

Source:http://www.pcworld.com/article/149453/article.html#