[electronista] -- It's a shame, but I knew this day was coming. I used to be a long time MS Reader/LIT user with my Pocket PC's. Since I started using it ten years ago, I have only bought a few books (except text/reference books.) It is not an exaggeration that it started my dropping physical media. I now do not buy not only books but also newspaper, CD, DVD and Blu-ray. I just don't buy any material if it's not available in an electronic format.
Years have gone by and I now use an iPhone. Before my transition from Pocket PC to iPhone, I made it sure that anything I was doing in Pocket PC could be done in iPhone. MS Reader was taken over by Stanza, and then iBooks. I have had no reason to go back to Pocket PC.
Again, it's a shame that yet another Microsoft's half-hearted effort is killing their great product. Those might have just been produced too early for a mass to accept. But that's the problem of Microsoft. They may be innovative, but cannot feel the air in the public. They may have had an acceptable OS at a time by luck, but do not know how to sustain it by leaving it. They had a key to solve the current issue of theirs right in Pocket PC and Windows CE ten years ago. But it has been lost forever.
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