Counterfactual tech trivia: if slider keyboards had won, social video would've been horizontal from day one
yungcontent · x · 2026-10-31
A tech-culture musing: had slider-keyboard phones won, social networks would have featured horizontal video from the start, and vertical clips might never have entered the zeitgeist — despite human eyes sitting side by side, not stacked. The attached image shows a concept slider phone playing a vertical MrBeast video.
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