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Originally Posted by Bob Russell
MobiPocket becomes more and more interesting each day as we hear news of their expansion into the market. Everything from the iLiad to the anticipated Amazon Kindle, to the Blackberry and more. With the importance of cross platform compatibility and with MobiPocket format's expected staying power after the acquisition by Amazon, MobiPocket is likely to win more and more fans.
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Well Mobipocket might win a fan with me if it truly was cross platform compatible. However as far as desktops, MobiPocket is only cross platform if you happen to be running Windows- a buggy, virus infested, insecure OS that I do not happen to subscribe to. Despite the fact that MobiPocket has a Java based reader that can be run on any OS that has Java, MobiPocket refuses to release it to Mac or Linux users. How is this a cross platform solution? I would love to be able to run MobiPocket on my Mac- I'd even be willing to pay for a Mac version of this application- but so far they seem to be more interested in developing readers for cell phones than creating a true cross platform e-reader solution.
Whatever else might be said about Adobe Digital Editions at least I can download and run it on my Mac at home and my Windows PC at work. That's my definition of "cross-platform".