In an interview with Extreme Tech, Apple product head Greg Joswiak explained the lack of cut and paste in the iPhone: it’s just not a priority right now. He says Apple worked its way as far down its “priority list” of features for firmware 2.0, but just not far enough to reach cut and paste. He then went on the explain why there wasn’t a full native office suite ready for App Store launch, and that turn-by-turn navigation is allowed and likely to be released soon, though by a third party.
According to Joswiak, David Pogue’s report that the iPhone’s GPS antenna is too weak for real-time navigation is false. He cites “complicated issues” as holding up development, but expects to be “dazzled” by software makers in the near future. When pressed about the availability of an office suite, he says that the lack of a cross-application file structure would make such programs difficult to design. Though honestly, I’m not even sure I’d want a text editor if I couldn’t select or copy text. [ExtremeTech via Crunchgear]
Jesper
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 8:22 AMIf Copy and Paste is not high on the “priority list” then it because they don’t care about the endusers at all.
Take a look in there own discussion. There i hundreds of people asking for Copy & Paste.
Apple has lost my support, they really disappoint me.
Matt
Friday, July 18, 2008 at 9:32 PMThere is currently a petition on http://www.iphonefeatures.org to get Apple to include features such as ‘cut and paste’ into the next software release