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RSS will never work on a PDA anyway, because it was never designed to. RSS feeds always lead to the full-size version of the article (thats precisely the point, to draw traffic to the site hosting the article(s) in question, and thus advertising revenue).
Since there is no real benefit to having a "clipped" front page of news summaries, which lead to the full-size article content anyway, it is wasteful and unnecessarily large when viewed on PDA or cellphone devices.
Until they devise a way to clip-and-strip the full-size page for PDA or mobile accessibility (thereby removing advertising revenue, not a good idea), these kinds of services are just a fad. The technology just doesn't allow for proper propagation of the article content.
But then again, this is largely in part because most web designers building these sites don't know how to make sites forward-compatible, coded against standards, using WAI compliance. It takes a level of discipline that most "web developers" (and I use that term very loosely) are lazy and lack the knowledge or experience to properly implement the right approach.
We'll get there eventually, but it will require some learning on the part of the web developers who are consistently building these monolithically-large sites full of inaccessible content.
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