The lack of copy/paste on the iphone is incredibly annoying. It is one of the many reasons I really don’t like my iphone.

Overblown. You probably also believe they put out the iSDK due to “public pressure.” The SDK was planned all along. CCP will come when they’ve figured out the most elegant way to do it. You seem to forget that the solution they come up with has to encompass more variables than any of us are likely to think about.

The MagicPad guys have suggested a solution:
http://magicpad.proximi.com/video.php

I’m not sure yet if I agree with it. It seems inside the box.

If Apple could have copy and paste in their computers in the early eighties, then there’s absolutely no reason why they can’t have such a BASIC function in the iPhone today.

Given how complex the iPhone is and the amazing things it can do, it a VERY DUMB error on Apple’s part to not have this facility in there.

There are so many times when I’ve wanted to use this facility on my iTouch.

The ability to have bluetooth keyboards working with the iPhone would be good too…again a pretty basic thing but I’d be happy with the copy and paste above all else.

Cheers!

Jon

If Apple could have copy and paste in their computers in the early eighties, then there’s absolutely no reason why they can’t have such a BASIC function in the iPhone today.

Given how complex the iPhone is and the amazing things it can do, it a VERY DUMB error on Apple’s part to not have this facility in there.

There are so many times when I’ve wanted to use this facility on my iTouch.

The ability to have bluetooth keyboards working with the iPhone would be good too…again a pretty basic thing but I’d be happy with the copy and paste above all else.

Cheers!

Jon

Actually, forget cut and paste. It’s not needed anymore when you can have this instead:

http://appcraver.com/i-am-rich-iphone-application/

;-)

Someone said “You whiners just don’t get it. It’s a PHONE not a NOTEBOOK COMPUTER”.

Possibly the worst argument ever put forward here. Do you think Apple designed it as ‘just a phone’ or as a feature rich multifunctional device with third party blogging tools, evernote, location based apps, etc. Cut and paste would be handy in certain situations, as would ‘open in new tab’ as someone else mentioned.

…just to add a few things.

Until the iPhone all smart phones basically adopted desktop user interfaces in their implementation of touch screens. Like I mentioned above, the user input device (the stylus) was mainly designed for clicking (selecting) and dragging (moving items or selecting text). The fact that scroll bars are still present demonstrates that.

The iPhone uses a completely different interface than a desktop and as such doing “things” ain’t as easy as some people would like think it is. Apple is in the process of inventing a new interface and ways to interact with it. In time, they will develop a solid solution.

People who think that is “unacceptable” don’t have to use an iPhone and can choose some other phone. But like I mentioned above, my need for it right now isn’t that great, so the iPhone works just fine for me (although I can’t wait for PNS to go live so I can have AIM online).

P.S. The same thing goes for allowing background processes-as devices get more powerful (batteries as well), I’m sure Apple will begin to allow 3rd parties to create their own as well. Although I’m sure Apple will build in some way to give the user an option to allow (or not) an application to install a background process.

While I’ve only had a few times when I really needed to copy and paste text or something else,copy and paste is only a function of a much larger issue. The bigger problem is designing a mechanism for selecting items or high-lighting text so that a function or action may be performed on it/them one of which may be to copy text, or change font size, etc. And this mechanism must be system wide.

This can be fairly easily implemented on the desktop because there are content designated areas and the mouse pointer was designed for clicking and selecting. On the iPod/iPhone this becomes a little more complex because the main uses of touch are for clicking and panning/scrolling.

Apple would need to create new gestures, rewrite views to handle them, develop a system for presenting user selectable actions and create a system wide clipboard.

I use copy and Paste as a functional part of my day. I do all of my scheduling through my phone, with the name, place and phone # attached. These appointments do not occur on a routine schedule. The only work around offered by the apple geeks was to move the appointment to another day by continuiously changing the date and time. Then I would have lost my log of appointments. Not acceptable to me.

Not just that… Why Safari doesn’t allow the option to “open link in new tab”??????????!!!!!!!!

LACK of copy/paste is a FEATURE of the iPhone. It’s something the other smartphones don’t have. Next thing is all the smartphone companies will be removing copy/paste to copy the iPhone.

On the serious side, the iPhone will have copy/paste in due time. Rumor has it that copy/paste will show up in iPhone firmware 2.1 if that can be believed. So meanwhile, sing the song “She’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes….”

“The lack of copy-paste is a BAD thing”

Uh, did you read the article? Some of us don’t consider the lack a “BAD thing”. Some of us just don’t “copy paste” on our phones. Sorry to disappoint you. I love how Kevin is being attacked for being “Apple fanboys” just because they don’t use a feature that isn’t there, and don’t really miss it. Newsflash, a lot of iPhone users have used the iPhone for over a year, without copy/paste, and have done just fine.

Not sure what you guys are all doing with your phones where its a “necessity” you use “all the time”, but hey, more power to you and your other phones. Just get over yourselves.

My Blackberry Curve is no computer but it sure has Copy/Paste that I can use.

Johnny Appleseed…I challenge the assertion that we don’t get it. Maybe Apple doesn’t get it. A device as powerful as the iPhone is bound to be taken as more than just a phone. Cut/paste is simply ingrained in the user’s expectations for a device of this caliber. Again, normally Apple is very good about predicting user expectations and to me it seems they missed on this one. The device should be what the consumer expects it to be. No whining, just an observation.

The iPhone was never meant to be a notebook computer. You whiners just don’t get it. It’s a PHONE not a NOTEBOOK COMPUTER !! Rumor has it that Apple is actually working on a device that blurs the line between a phone and a netbook, sounds like that is the Apple device that you guys need.

I wonder what Apple will come up with next. Maybe leave out the second mouse button? After all, how often do you need that one.