For the past few months I’ve been having trouble with my laptop, so I’ve had to fall back on my first-gen iPhone as my main computer. While it’s capable of qui

For the past few months I’ve been having trouble with my laptop, so I’ve had to fall back on my first-gen iPhone as my main computer. While it’s capable of quite a lot, it is not a substitute for a real computer and I don’t think anything in its form factor ever could be—primarily due to the small screen inherent to mobile phones. The iPhone’s way of zooming in on text blocks is certainly helpful, and better than the ‘dumbphone‘ method of showing a few dozen characters per screen, but it’s a less than ideal way to read anything of length. Let’s get to work on those holographic displays.