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TCV: I Share your pain.
A big part of "tech remorse" for me is actually what seems to give Bob R. & Nightwing contentment: I agonise over the purchase, checking stats, playing with it in the store, making lists for and against, and, the most difficult, explaining to my young wife why I need a $300 phone. I try so desparately to justify my new gadget that I have built it up in my mind to be the sine qua non of tech gloriana that when I do buy it and it only does what it says it does, I am dejected.
The first month I had my Treo 650, I was annoyed at its limitations. Now, with directory assistance, wikipedia, and a camera that can e.mail the USCG inspector & tech service reps, & keep track of company checks I write, I love it and feel wholly justified.
For the Reader to be justifiable (by any of my criteria), I will need to replace all the books in my beat up bookshelf. The sad fact is that many of the books there will most likely not have an electronic counterpoint in my lifetime (P. Mathiessen wrote in the 70's, and I'll be dead long before the copyright runs out).
As Jake points out, the iPod, which I thinnk is five years old, has had numerous tech overhauls in that time, and people keep buying. I hope that SONY's new product is successful enough to enjoy such an evolutionary process.
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