The plot thickens. The snobs at my Cigar Club, who flaunt their iphones, could not show me how to change font size on the iphone, RIGHT THERE at the Club, BEFORE I took it back and returned it for the Galaxy. I’m soon due to upgrade again.
Now you are just making things up, Tucker. You are dancing. Any iPhone user could demonstrate the pinch to zoom to expand the view. . . Any one of them. You have just been caught in a lie and are trying to avoid being ridiculed. I just showed you STEVE JOBS DEMONSTRATING THAT FEATURE ON THE VERY FIRST iPHONE and you still claim it could not do it. It is inherent in the system and took Android YEARS to do it and a LAWSUIT from Apple before it became ubiquitous because Apple PATENTED IT! Give it up, Tucker, you cannot tell us something we've used every day on our Apple devices for the past nine years simply doesn't work.
Yes, it is not a "permanent" change, because the iPhone was designed to show you the entire Internet webpage as you would see it on a computer, not the crippled view and experience of a MOBILE device. You do the expansion only when you needed to see it by either pinch to zoom when you wanted it, or double tap on the text you wanted. Double tap filled the screen with the column of text. EITHER has ALWAYS worked perfectly.
I refer you again to the video above of Steve Jobs demonstrating pinch to zoom as a major new feature of the iPhone on January 9, 2007.
The first multi-touch screen Android phone was the HTC Hero, which was released in Europe in July 2009 and in the US in October of that year. It did NOT support pinch to zoom for either photos or Internet webpages or text screens. The first Android phone to support pinch to zoom was the HTC Droid Eris (Also marketed as HTC Android 6250), introduced in November 6, 2009. That was just two months short of three years after Apple demonstrated pinch to zoom in January of 2007.
I again state that FACTS trump your dancing, and now made up facturds, and more anecdotes.