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The Truth Behind Cut & Paste

Posted 07/15/2008 at 2:22:06pm | by Florence Ion

Apple finally explained why there is no iPhone copy and paste in an interview with ExtremeTech. Apple product head, Greg Joswiak says that the feature just wasn’t on the list of priorities for the iPhone. Apparently, he and his crew “judged other things to be more important.”

To the lucky million with an iPhone 3G wondering, “What is up with the GPS?” David Pogue wrote last week, that the iPhone’s antenna is “much too small to emulate the turn-by-turn navigation of a G.P.S. unit for a vehicle.”

Joswiak says that is incorrect. The iPhone is capable of turn-by-turn directions. Apple just needs to work on some technical issues and we should expect to be amazed by what developers release as the iPhone evolves.

As far as an iPhone office suite is concerned, Dataviz told ExtremeTech that “unspecified technical issues” were holding back development. Joswiak said that he wasn’t aware of any complications, but if there were any, it would have to do with the lack of a cross-application file structure on the iPhone. The iPhone gives each application its own file space at the moment.

Not sure how useful an office suite would be without a copy and paste feature, though.

COMMENTS: 5

TAGS: iPhone Launch, iPhone Software 2.0

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Cut and Paste?
Submitted by Art743 on Tue, 2008-07-15 11:48

As a converted Windows user, I have often asked how to do cut and paste without the keyboard in Tiger or Leopard, and no one has ever described a method. So I copy and paste, then delete. Such a shame that is not in the contextual menu. Or am I missing something. Believe me, this is something I would love to be wrong about.

Loving my new iPhone. I just can't believe how easy it is to master.

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Office Suit?
Submitted by guyb on Tue, 2008-07-15 12:02

What's an office suit? (As far as an iPhone office suit is concerned...) The biggest reason I'd like copy/paste capabilities is so that Smile On My Mac could come up with a Textexpander iPhone edition. (No, I don't work for them, but I do use Textexpander constantly on my MacBook Pro.)

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I'm not sure I understand
Submitted by StoneCRM114 on Tue, 2008-07-15 13:26

I'm not sure I understand what you're talking about, Art. If you go to the top menu bar and go to the Edit menu, you'll be able to use your mouse to "Cut" what you've selected and then paste it where you want. Copy, Paste, and Cut are all under the Edit menu in every program I've ever used on a Mac.

The words 'too @*#!-ing busy' shouldn't be in a waitress' vocabulary. - Mr. Pink

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size matters
Submitted by Lisa Weddle on Tue, 2008-07-15 19:53

Sounds like Joswiak is a little touchy about being told that his antenna is "much too small". heh heh.

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Yes Cut and Paste is in the menu bar but it is
Submitted by merms on Wed, 2008-08-27 15:12

Greyed out. Hence not doable. At least for me it is.

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