Is there one?

No other service requires or offers a separate web/mail client. Why? Because there are already plenty out there and to ask users with multiple mailboxes and bookmarks etc., to manage yet another client just isn't realistic! Worse if your offerings are sub-par and offer little if anything in differentiation when compared to these other tools already in the possession of users.

A separate client would make sense ONLY if you were adding additional services and features that needed a desktop application and could not be done as well using web 2.0 technologies. The features supported should be those most requested by users while highlighting unique service features. This fails on all counts!

To anyone thinking of trusting their internet life to AOL's software the landscape is littered with discontinued AOL efforts and many bare the scars to trying to get their data out of proprietary AOL formats etc. While this offering is better in that regard why go down this road again.

I will stay on the old client until it dies then I will leave AOL for good.