Copy & Paste on the iPhone →

When the iPhone was introduced, one of it’s biggest setback pointed out by everyone who had already become enamored with it anyway despite it’s inadequacies, was the absence of the cut & paste feature. Of course the question was, why hadn’t Apple introduced this initially.

A way around this involved me taking notes of something I came across while browsing on the iPhone and then typing in everything back in the search field. A hassle but something I just had to conform to. With the 3.0 release, transferring text from one place to another is effortless but thinking back now about why any of this wasn’t possible to begin with has been answered by Gruber:

That we had to wait two years for the iPhone’s text selection and pasteboard is a good example of one aspect of the Apple way: better nothing at all than something less than great. That’s not to say Apple never releases anything less than great, but they try not to. It’s simply incomprehensible to some people that it might be better to have no text selection/pasteboard implementation while waiting for a great one than to have a poor implementation in the interim.

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