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BTW Dan, you need a better proof-reader.
The new OS for me has taken it from a 'great phone' to an 'almost everything I need' phone. So waiting a year (while still using a great phone) for copy and paste is now in the past and the future is bright.
Although my twitter app on the iPhone has gone bad, so it will not be on of the first apps I use for copy and paste.
Also I have been thinking. It looks like the apps need to add this function, I wonder if some of them will not, i.e. e-book readers may not want to for fear of copyright holders coming after them...
you feel sorry for iphone users because they got a free update of a new O.S
that adds a lot of new features to a already good smartphone
and the funny part the developers have yet to take advantage of all the APIs
S it'll only get better !
@aMUSICsite & seven7dust: I feel sorry for iPhone users because they've had to put up with a half-baked device for the past two years. I personally think it's ridiculous that so-called "smartphone" would be missing such a basic feature as copy & past when their competitors have had it for years. Oh, and free OS updates aren't new. I know for a fact that Windows Mobile has been doing it for years, and I think that palm OS phones did as well back in the day. As an example, my first WM phone had an update back in 2003 (and it had cut & past, landscape keyboard, MMS, video, search straight out of the box - but I digress).
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a (complete) iPhone hater. I think the iPhone is brilliant in many regards, and I agree with aMUSICsite that the future is bright. But the topic here is cut & paste and on that note, the fact is that the iPhone was years behind its competition.
You must have known what the story was about from the headline, so do you not find it also a little sad that you have taken the trouble click and respond?
Not sure that a missing copy-and-paste function qualifies as fifty percent broken although if this were true then you'd have to agree that this must be a very important update.
I see where you are coming from but try to remember that apple have been in the smartphone business for just a short amount of time compared their competition. So for a fair comparison you'd need to take a look at how other phones shook up the market early on.
Anyway, I can see the value of Twitter outside of the purely social aspect of chattering/twittering away about all and sundry. Important messages to a work group or crew, breaking news (important stuff not Octomom updates), that sort of stuff.
I heard a report the other day that 90% of all Twitter messages are made by a small percentage of people. I don't know if that is true or not or if the percentage is that high, but it sounds plausible.
if you use it like a social network to keep up with friends then yeah! it's a time waste
I use you IMs/facebook for that
But Twitter is a great way to get information you want immediately
thx to it I'm always up to date with all the stuff that interest me ,
and it luckily it works on phones too !
since when did you need to run multiple apps for copy and paste to work
plus multi-tasking on the iPhone works
it's just not available for third party apps like twitter apps/AIM etc.
but with Push notifications I would think that Some of the Needs might be taken care of !
is safari tweaks now you can open links on web sites in a new page
something that has bugged me so much that I and bought 10$ worth of third party browsers with this feature ,unfortunately none of them Worked well !
it's a must have feature for twitter, face book google search and RSS feeds or just about any website actually !
Oh well ! atleast we can finally do it now
Last year I bought a voice memo recorder app. I now like the one that comes with OS 3.0 much better than the 3rd party one. Of course that doesn't mean the developer couldn't improve on the Apple voice memo app, but the point is that some 3rd party apps may now be obsolete.
you need to tap and hold just in case you're wondering
"Cut, copy, and paste words and photos, even between applications. Copy and paste images and content from the web, too."
- by CupertinoBill June 18, 2009 3:03 PM PDT
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(22 Comments)You most certainly copy from Safari web pages, of course you can not paste into a web page unless it is into a form on the page. But you can copy, and very elegant copy feature it is. Then you can paste it anywhere. You just pick a word on the page, touch it, when the magnifier appears, let up and viola there is the copy command, the word selected with handles on front and back. Just drag the handles for the content you want and there is your copy. I have never seen a better method on any blackberry. Much better than the Pre in fact.