I NEVER use the iPhone app. I use the mobile page through Safari.
The app has serious limitations (like the inability to post Qs) and is in serious need of an update.
But most of the time I’m using my iPhone cuz I can lie in bed watching (or listening to) TV while Fluthering. Very convenient. I don’t really have a desktop set up and being hunched over a laptop really bothers my back after awhile.
I’m trying to figure out your observation about doing multiple things at once. While it is true that you can have a lot of applications on the iPhone, they can only be used one at a time. As a matter of fact, that’s one of the biggest complaints about the iPhone. You cannot use apps simultaneously as other phone OSs allow. I can’t be listening to Pandora Radio while doing something else, for instance.
As far as reading on a small screen goes, the pinch/zoom feature enables enlarging the text as much as you want. Have you ever tried it or seen a demo?
But what I found most attractive about the iPhone (speaking of text size) is that it’s the ONLY phone I was able to find which displays the info for incoming calls large enough for me to see without grabbing my reading glasses. Prior to this I may as well not even had caller ID since I couldn’t read it in time. Especially when I’m not at home.
I really don’t have trouble reading the info on Fluther since I’m wearing my reading glasses anyhow ( and would have to for using the laptop also) and holding the phone in landscape mode (sideways) makes it easier to read.
I never thought I’d be using the iPhone for so many things when I first got it I was just glad to be able to see caller ID