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Go look at the Marvin sub-forum and look at all the requests.
Apple, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and the others don't have time for this. Whatever they add to their readers, is only another thing they have to note in their manuals. Most people just want to get in and out of a book. There is nothing wrong with the choices of colors, fonts, and margins in any of these apps, except that they don't meet the needs of us enthusiasts who like to read A LOT.
You can easily customize Marvin to the point that it's not readable anymore. And it's the problems like that which can hurt these companies, because it'll only lead to more customer support requests from people needing help to fix it. We're all tech savvy here, but really, millions of people who use the same tech we do are so dumbfounded when it comes to obscure settings. I constantly have to deal with college professors who have no idea how to operate a printer, or setup a projector, and struggle with it for at most a hour during classes.
My dad has always had problems with the Start Menu in Windows even, he tries to get to a program, and it closes as he's going up through the menus.
If you don't cater to the masses, you're not going to get anywhere. A company like Amazon or Apple would not survive with just the 230,000 of us here onboard. And they can deal with not having up when there are millions of millions of other customers who are happy and spending lots of money..
As for iTunes U, I like the new setup. The menus at the bottom, instead of all the elaborate planner stuff, is a welcomed change IMO.
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