You know sunrise. That sweeping light that wraps you up in a moment of stillness. Mist rising from the low fields, frost on the hills, at most a few farm buildings tucked into false corners. No apocalypse city, no smoking soldier.
Just sunlight and half farmland in an empty world.
Now I bet you didn’t imagine that in vertical, did ya?
We see the world in the landscape setting. Our two beady little eyes give us depth and a wonderful, intuitive sense of the magical roundness of life. Those hills aren’t flat. That mist swirls and breathes like a live thing, ephemeral but entirely 3-D, different from every possible angle.
Someone, once upon a time, had the idea of a vertical smart phone. Hey, no one got in a phone box and held the phone horizontal. It makes sense.
Thanks to a little feature known as endless scroll, you can skim an entire 6th century scroll’s worth of information in a 15 min session on your vertical device. Now you wouldn’t remember any of it but remember, you’re informed.
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