Umm, how about the basics? The ability to save a text, forward a text and recieve picture texts! I've said this before...

Screen Name

@Derry Quinn: Was 1.1.3 $20 or were the apps $20?

I remember at the time that 1.1.3 was supposed to be free but if you wanted the iPhone apps you had to pay the $20. I also remember in practice that when it first launched people weren't able to get any of the 1.1.3 functionality without buying the apps. I don't remember though if that eventually got sorted out or not.

tande04

There are two or three things I'd use copy and paste but I can do without it. The OTA Podcasr downloading would be awesome, right now I use Podcaster.Fm and it works great but there's podcasts that I used in iTunes that aren't in podcaster so that'll be a welcome addition. Other that I'm good, I really care for nothing else in this update. Like others I'd like Safari to be a little more stable. Hopefully Apple will make that happen.

Rondogg96

Line-In sound access for developers
Apparently, the new OS update allows developers to have access to the sound part of the iPhone hardware. This opens the door for better microphones or high quality voice recognition.

To me opening the door for line-in is so much about enabling better mics or voice recognition as it is enabling things like line-in recording, audio f/x processing (making the iPhone a portable, multi-touch fx unit would be pretty damn sweet), etc.

Although line-in could allow for better mics, proper use of the headphone line-in jack could provide similar results if high quality microphones were used.

Keebler

@Hickeroar:
The maps additions are amazing imo. I'm much more excited over those than copy and paste (although I would love it very much, but I'm not crying over it).

Everyone needs to just chill out with "COPY PASTE NOW LOL" type stuff (not to poster just in general). Apple and AT&T know we want it. And they probably kill a kitten for each time you ask for it.

Blinklink11

@Ryan Goins: Brilliant!

bpapa9013

@snitch29:
AMEN I could care less about those two as well.. I would love for WSJ.com not to crash my iPhone every time, as well as those random crashes every once and a while. I would KILL for landscape txt and email typing too..

Wegmans

@ars_workerbee2:"Maybe they do actually know something about making a device that most people want."

You are correct. They have top notch marketing. However they don't know much about making a device that is useful.

bpapa9013

@Agent-199: It's exactly how Macs work, but the fanbois will never admit it.

RacecarBoobTat

@ars_workerbee2: 1.1.3 was twenty dollars

Derry Quinn

I think Steve Jobs is purposely (and personally!!)delaying copy paste so he can put up a slide at some keynote in the future that's all black with white "Copy, Paste" whilst spreading his arms and flashing his best "I AM YOUR GOD, BITCHES" face...then saying, "Isn't it amazing....simply stunning!" or somesuch nonsense....

He seems to like doing that.

CommodorePerry

Supply a way to synch Notes for cryin' out loud. The product shouldn't have launched without this.

stryder100

@braindead360: It's never really been about the soft cap. It's a little about using the cellular data networks to send large amounts of info constantly, but mostly about the licensing of the songs. The current setup means that even if Apple had permission to sell songs over cellular data networks from the studios, they'd still have to pay AT&T et al. for the service. Lots of red tape.

Leonard Nimrod

Fix Safari please:
- Fix crashing issues
- Hit the back button the previous page should show right up without reloading, how hard is it Apple?
- option to open a link in new tab

pipper

I second improving Safari to not crash every five minutes. Is this how Macs work?

Agent-199

@Whirl: LMAO I'm about to do that right now!

Joseph

Another bug that I notice, though may not be a prevalent issue, is non-responsiveness of the playback window that pops up after double pressing the home button while on hold, or just navigating outside of the music app.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

@navvywavvy: amen to that...

spyz88

They might as well have an update that adds an extra division button to the calculator for as much as these "features" will help me.

navvywavvy

@snitch29: HEAR HEAR!!!

Leonard Nimrod

I don't think copy and paste is ever going to show up. I mean, they obviously know people want it and I can't imagine it would take this long to develop that sort of functionality.

terraform

@braindead360: As much as I wish this was available, I remember reading something a while back that said that if Apple opened up the iTunes store over the cell network, they'd have to share music revenues with AT&T.

Not sure why this applies to music only, and not the app store, but there is a reason.

dmband9

@Hickeroar: Yeah, if there's no copy/paste this round, I'm headed for Android.

RacecarBoobTat

@braindead360: iTunes over EDGE? Why would you want to do that to yourself.

pdditty

@Hickeroar: Copy-and-paste functionality would be great.

ZAPPO1123

How about "Plays Nice with ActiveSync".

As a business tool, the iPhone is sorely lacking. In order for me to get my iPhone to give me push calendar, I have to have Google Calendar sync with my copy of Outlook and then I have to use Nuevasync to push my Google Calendar to the iPhone. A better method would be to have the iPhone 3G to actually do what a Blackberry has been able to do for years.

The iPhone 3G - Chock Full o' Business FAIL

OMG! Ponies!

@reactionsok: Yes!

DigitalSciGuy

I am beyond sick and tired of this old update game that Apple plays. Never giving me the stuff I NEED (copy & paste) and giving me useless features that I will never use such as Google Street View and sending my coordinates.

Oh yea well there is OTA podcast updates except I BOUGHT PODCASTER which looks to be a much better job then the "bone" Apple will throw us.

spyz88

MMS Please! I hate logging in to view a damn picture!

Whirl

How about iTunes over 3G or even EDGE? It would make sense for people who aren't in a wi-fi hotspot, and considering that it would take up to approximately 1,250 downloads to exceed their 5GB data cap, I can't see it causing to much of a problem for AT&T.

braindead360

I suspect that this business a round Apple's neglect of copy/paste is that they're stumped on how to make it super easy, but at the same time refuse to dish out a stopgap measure until they can get it up to whatever crazy standard they may have for it. Are there apps that can copy & paste on jailbroken phones right now? If so, can anyone who's tried it tell me if it works well?

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

Fu*K copy & paste and fu*k MMS, all i want is the freggin Safari browser to stop crashing, google street view is also something i might use 1 time in a lifetime, Apple please Focus on making this thing more stable and then worry about adding features

snitch29

@grem28: I think the article writer forgot to add it in there, from what I've heard it's still in the 2.2 sdk.

chorx

Well it looks like they addressed everything, finally! Not a single, simple, constantly-overlooked problem went unnoticed.

cjones27

I must have glossed over that inclusion of walking directions, because that's news to me. I'm excited about this update, though I am upset like everyone else about the omission of copy-paste and I'm also part of that measly 2% of people from that last *super scientific* survey who want to edit Office documents on the go. As for the location sharing feature, occasionally I don't know where the hell I am and I just want to share my GPS coordinates!

DigitalSciGuy

Oh come on. You guys know Apple. They aren't going to put in Copy and Paste until Apple thinks it's ready. Knowing Apple's attention to detail and the user experience, they are probably going to hold off on it until it's tweaked just right.

In a nutshell: We are probably going to be waiting for it, but it's for the better.

Also: I wonder if Street View works with the GPS? Because that would make me actually use it. And the public transit support rules as well.

Anticitizen

@admoseremic: There is no way you wrote that from your iPhone haha

Ryan Goins

@The 12 Men on the Field Watch Intern: The previous point updates have been free to iPod touch users, eg 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 to iPod touch owners, and those who bought 2.0 or their iPod touch came with 2.0, they've gotten the 2.x updates free.

ars_workerbee2

@The 12 Men on the Field Watch Intern: Yeah plan on paying for yet another upgrade..

Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude

how about NOT MAKING SAFARI CRASH!

reactionsok

@admoseremic: Cpy, Pst, Cpy, Pst...

The 12 Men on the Field Watch Intern

@Hickeroar: If those "idiots at Apple" knew anything about selling phones, they're stop and realize that without copy and paste, they'd never make their sales goals, let alone exceed them by a wide margin.

Oh wait.

Maybe they do actually know something about making a device that most people want.

ars_workerbee2

I am really hoping for flash to be used on the iphone. It bugs me especially when i try to view videos on giz when they are not hosted my youtube.

Wess

Whatever happened to background processing?

grem28

@admoseremic:

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xsecretfiles2

@admoseremic: Could not have said it better myself.

11hawkinst

I still don't understand the "line in" part of the update.

tande04

Apple continues to show their contempt for the users of the Iphone. A copy and paste update would be a more beneficial feature than what they are producing.

paul96734

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admoseremic

Any word on how it'll affect us low-tech iPod Touch users?

The 12 Men on the Field Watch Intern

If the idiots at apple don't add copy and paste, I really don't care about anything else in this update. This has been the absolute MOST requested feature since day 1, and they still haven't come through with it. Ugh.

Hickeroar

@Anticitizen: huhwhat? you're seriously telling me it takes a year and a half to develop a copy and paste function? at that rate, i simply can't believe they even managed to include a number pad, it's a miracle!!!!!!

[sirens] ALERT ALERT [sirens] FANBOY ALERT, FANBOY ALERT[sirens]

That is the only way i can even justify having read your comment. no sane person would have responded as you did. how come it took outside developers only weeks to develop a copy/paste function for jailbroken phones and yet apple is going on 18 months of consistent pleading from their customers?

stre

How about OTA firmware updates? Or stability of the OS? Sheesh.

Mona

@reactionsok: Opera mini ftw

Mona

Streetview? Meh. Not really necessary... nice but not necessary.

Copy & Paste, on the other hand, is obvious and essential. A little more stability would be nice too (though I clearly don't have the problems others do)

ComicDork

@Hickeroar: Why are you so reliant on copy and paste? I'd rather see background / multi processing.

Mona

@Anticitizen: Because cut/paste is such an advanced implementation of cutting edge computer science, certainly don't want to rush it...

bpapa9013

@cjones27: hjaha!

Hickeroar

@reactionsok:

Yeah that would get old...

bpapa9013

@Blinklink11: I can't even remember the last time I opened the maps app... I have virtually no use for it at all.

Hickeroar

I want a brand new calculator, with different skins, and when you turn the iPhone counterclockwise, it become an abacus. Forget all those other stuff people are screaming for, like copy and paste, and push and sync notes and to do's, thats just a waste of engineering efforts.

Give us an abacus!!!

Ken_Darrow

@Blinklink11: So I'll be able to get rid of that "I Am Here" app, cool.

BEERxTaco

@admoseremic: This reminds me of:

Back and to the left, Back and to the left, Back and to the left, Back and to the left, Back and to the left, Back and to the left, Back and to the left, Back and to the left.

Jrsy is the dude, playin' the dude, disguised as another dude

I would think MMS would be a big deal. Much bigger than copy paste. I always wonder if nobody had brought up the copy paste thing, how much everyone would clammer for it. In the long run, it's pretty insignificant.

the ability to send a picture message is a MUST for me. I never understand why so many devices can't do it. It seems so easy. If anyone knows why so many devices don't MMS, please let me know.

erichg14

I can't think of a single time when copy and paste would have been handy. MMS, however...

EndlessMike

What ever happened to the push cloud in the background thing? It's now 2 months overdue and I dont have a single decent chat program because they all CLOSE. Even backgrounder didn't really work well enough for me.

Slap Bet

@Anticitizen: i also notice that all but one of your comments since the beginning of october has been on apple posts. another clear sign of a fanboy.

stre

@Blinklink11: Too true. We should probably just start settling for what we have already and quit begging for the same basic features that everyone else has in their phone in order to make ours that much better. We should just take what Steve feeds us and be grateful that we're even afforded such a wonderful opportunity like being able to purchase the iPhone.

No one's saying "Damn you Jobs for making me buy a phone without Copy/Paste!", but it blows my mind (as well as others', I'm sure) that a feature that would obviously please a vast majority of both present and would-be iPhone owners a great deal. Especially when it's such a common feature to begin with. It's like they're doing it on purpose, sort of akin to a parent who won't give their spoiled child ice cream until he stops asking her for it. Except we're not children, we're consumers, and we deserved to be listened to.

rcast1986

What are you all going to request once we get copy and paste? I would rather have flash support or push notifications than copy and paste... I see myself using it only a few times than forgetting I actually have it.

CmooreInOR

Voice Dial. Please?

tmp00

Copy Paste
MMS

Everything else is nice, but these should have been there on day 1. Especially MMS - I've had that on my last 3 phones before the iPhone, but I LOST it with the iPhone. Are you kidding????

caleone

@Hickeroar:

the iPhone's map saved my ass at the West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade Friday.

I wish I was joking. And yes, I am straight.

Parapraxis

why cant we get MMS? please??

mpriorfan22

ugh... i dont want 2.2 to come out! That just means another 10 dollar barely worth it update that i have to buy for my ipod. and the really F'd up part is, I'll actually do it!

shorty6049

@DisposableInterloper: While I like your organized, educated response, I take issue with your argument that basically says "I use Maps more than Copy/Paste", well...you can't really go there since you don't have it. This could be the case, but you can't knock it til you've tried it. I know when they announced Genius I thought "Oh, right, like I'm ever gunna use that." But I actually use it a LOT more than I ever thought. Maybe Copy+Paste is that way.

rcast1986

@pipper:

I DEFINITELY agree whole-heartedly...

It'd be nice to go just for 1 or 2 sessions (as maybe 1 day is asking too much) without Safari crashing!

Try resetting...nope, still crashes...
Try clearing cache, history, etc...nope, still crashes...

I also second the back page w/o reload...what's the use of caching the page if you have to always reload?

timbrews

How about the same basic functionalities I've enjoyed with my old Treo for the past few years?

Oh man, I bought this thing believing it wouldn't be long before Apple will include copy&paste, and be able to take on the road and edit office documents.
After all, this is Apple... right? *right*???
Damn.
Apple, the new Microsoft.

gizGianca

@Hickeroar:
Think of the iPhone as a really souped-up iPod, not a miniaturized Mac. The iPhone is a device intended for data consumption, not content creation.

Copy/cut/paste is a fairly frivolous feature, and while a lot of people have been requesting it, most people are content with their iPhones. While I certainly had moments when I thought, "A clipboard would sure be handy," it's never been in a deal breaking context, nor has it ever happened with any notable frequency.

Maps, on the other hand, is actually rather important in the iPhone's context. Many people, including me, use it frequently, and since I hardly ever drive, having pedestrian routes would be a big boon for me.

Furthermore, cut and paste isn't as trivial as a lot of people claim it is. Sure, Apple could just slap on a few buttons for those functions and then half-ass a clipboard like some app developers have done, but that's not elegant, nor does it take security and performance into consideration. I'd say Apple has resisted a clipboard for the very same reason they've barred app developers from running their software in the background.

DisposableInterloper

@admoseremic: they keep saying its not high on their list of priorities. I dont get it. Shouldn't what the customers want most, be high on the list of priorities???

shorty6049

@cjones27: I think your sarcasm may have gone unnoticed. Pity.

Nahnsense

I want the reliability of my pre-2.0 iPod touch in my 3G, Safari and other apps still crash more than they used to on my touch

ab3

@Parapraxis: "...not that there's anything wrong with that..."

rcast1986

@Parapraxis: LMAO

shalegac

I am this close (holds fingers close together) to buying a xperia x1 if they dont add video recording

bdk185

@tande04: Basically, you could plug in an actual mic or another audio-device such as a guitar or something and have devs be able to use that.

This could mean recording yourself playing the guitar at high-quality... that is, if your guitar playing is high-quality. Har-dee-har.

This is actually something I'm semi-excited about. You could potentially have a full-featured music-editing app on your phone.

chasema

Any hope that the 3rd generation will have what we want? LOL

paul96734

@Hickeroar: Why do people get their panties in an epic bunch over copy/paste? I've had an iPhone for 4 months and I can't think of one time where it would have made my life significantly easier.

And really, is it more requested than proper picture messaging? Amount of forum noise does not equal public clamoring.

Colage

Landscape Keyboard for my fat fingers while texting pls

Duc

@OMG! Ponies!: Active Sync?? Your Joking right

Duc

Enough with the copy and paste- it's not that useful. Gimme MMS!

robethleffel

Copy and Paste will never be on the 3G :( but will be used to make people crave the iphone generation 3.

johurimam

How about the ability to text and email off-line? RIM's only been doing this for years.

Respond when you want - if you don't have reception, the phone will send the message in the background once you do.

OMG! Ponies!

@Parapraxis: "saved my ass"... so funny... =oP

malaklaze

@Duc: I shit thee not. I just want to be able to get my work calendar and email on my phone using the platform that most businesses (including the one I work for) use.

I know Apple has an irrational hatred for Microsoft but at some point Cupertino is going to have to accept that Microsoft is the standard for business.

OMG! Ponies!

@Whirl: logging in, and not being able to copy/past the random username/password they give you!

12-Inch Idongivafuck Sandwich

All very useful, but I'm most excited about the over-air podcast updates. That would be great, especially if it supported 3G, which I highly doubt because AT&T would flip its lid if Apple allowed you to download shows that were hundreds of megs in seize from their already unstable network.

karmaghost

Am I the only one with absolutely no need for Copy & Paste?! D:

Pengy

Does anyone else think the size of the Apple logo on the back of the iphone is just a bit tacky?

Aturayd

@rcast1986:
I never said a clipboard wouldn't be useful. Certainly, I'd love to see Apple implement it. It's just not a need-to-have feature for me.

In any event, I'm sure there's an excellent reason Apple hasn't put it out yet.

DisposableInterloper

WHO CARES ABOUT COPY AND PASTE. HOW ABOUT MMS SO WHILE I AM PAYING FOR THE FAMILY PLANS MMS, SMS, I CAN ACTUALLY USE IT. MY #1 IS A USER SWAPPABLE BATTERY SO WHEN I CAN BUY A EXTRA AND USE IT WHEN THE PHONE RUNS DEAD.

1. ACCESSIBLE BATTERY
2. TWO SPEAKERS AND MOVE THE MIC
3. MMS
4. COPY PASTE
5. VIDEO

darrinpruitt

@diabolusunknownTheSecond: Sorry, You're insane.

MobileMe.

diabolusunknownTheSecond

@Anticitizen: Your insane.

MobileMe.

diabolusunknownTheSecond

@shorty6049:
As Colage so eloquently put it, forum noise doesn't equate to actual demand.

DisposableInterloper

@OMG! Ponies!: I always had trouble getting Google Calendar synced with anything (Thunderbird, my old phone, and now the iPhone). I decided to just bite the bullet and go for a hosted Exchange account. At around $9 a month (roughly the same as MobileMe), I can use my own domain and all contacts, calendar items, and mail (with push) are synced instantly and flawlessly between my computers and phones. Oh, and that monthly fee includes Outlook 2007 and Entourage.

dimension6

I think it's ridiculous you can't forward texts to others.

Pay_Me_Or_Pay_Me_No_Attention

When is this supposed to hit the streets?

FritzLaurel

@stre: I'm not saying this because I'm a fanboy (So what if Apple products, for the most part, have failed to let me down, therefore, I use them?). I'm saying this because it's what Apple does. Apple does not give a shit for timeframes. They just simply are not releasing it until Apple themselves believe it's good enough for the general public.

And as for "FANBOY OMG", I use Apple products because of the ease of use and the superior UI, not to mention multitasking features such as Spaces and Expose.

Also: MobileMe was very much a bucketload of fail. Good thing I don't even use it.

Anticitizen

@bpapa9013:
It's dead straightforward on a full-sized OS proper. You've got loads of RAM, and a quick means to actually copy text (be it keystroke or menu).

On a device like the iPhone, it'd be straightforward to implement if you want the feature alone, but if you want it done right, you need to figure out how you're going to deal with a clipboard and not have it waste too much memory (or be too slow if you opt to cache it), and the interface is different enough to make implementing copy/paste elegantly a nontrivial task.

DisposableInterloper

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WTF is sooooooo hard??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!

nuggett76

Looks like they stole the OTA podcast update idea from the multiple-reject Podcaster application. Talk about day-light robbery!

WaldenLupus

@Leonard Nimrod: But Google does it with Android...

epistemus

@DisposableInterloper: Weird, because EVERY OTHER MOBILE OS SINCE PALM has had this feature.

epistemus

@chasema: I doubt that particular application. The impedance on a 1/4" guitar pre-amp is not the same as a line in. Line-in has power behind it. Since they've already got the circuit running off a low-power amp, I'd bet it'll let you do things like develop a "high quality stereo recorder" peripheral that snaps onto the device, like many iPods of the past. But I don't think they somehow figured out how to squeeze a transformer inside there and waited until now to turn it on.

epistemus

@Colage: That's funny, because I have a WinMo phone and I use Copy/Paste at least a few times a week. Often I pull up a website or document on my phone, copy a chunk of data into an email or text message. It is incredibly handy. Also, if I get a text message and it contains, say, an address I want to save, I can just copy that right into a contact. Easy.

Now, I'm sure you all will really enjoy the walking directions / public transit stuff. I have that now (like many WinMo, Blackberry, Android, and other non-iPhone users), and it has come in handy quite a few times.

That does get me thinking though - why was the iPhone last to the party on things like Street View (Sept 17 for the rest of us), Public Transit, walking directions, etc? Do you think that perhaps now that Apple and Google are in DIRECT competition in this market, you'll see this delay (already 45 days) stretch out even further? Google could always just blame "limited developer resources" for not developing for the (at best) sixth-largest mobile platform. "Other projects were just a higher priority."

epistemus

@epistemus:
I sincerely thank you for skipping my post entirely and saying "lulz but th3yz all got it 2!!!!"

Just because other mobile operating systems have the feature doesn't mean the feature is implemented right. I suppose one could argue that worse is better, but that's not how Apple works when it comes to fairly inconsequential features like cut/paste.

DisposableInterloper

I can think of several things I would like to see:
1. Get email working properly. Sometimes it fetches and other times it doesn't, make it push as promised.
2. Turn by turn navigation with voice prompts so I don't have to play with the damn thing while driving
3. Improved 3G reception and switch over
4. Real solid voice dialing that is button activated so I don't have to look at the screen and it voice prompts me for actions
5. A few less hangs & crashes of the phone OS and Safari
6. Ability to edit documents and spreadsheets
7. Copy & paste both within and across applications
8. selective restore in iTunes when I just want to restore a particular data or application and its settings without overwrting everything

barjohn

i would love to have the software smart enough so that you talk in edge and surf/data pull in 3g.. i appreciate the higher voice quality and ability to talk and surf but i would rather have a better talk time!! edge is fine in voice quality.. and 3g is great for surfing... just add some sort of power saving feature that you can turn on .. so it happens automatically!

ZanderStork

@shorty6049: From my experience, I see a lot of tween girls with iPhones, and I can pretty much assure you that they couldn't care less about copy/paste, lol.

MadCow234

@epistemus: Well, on an iPhone, if someone texts you an address, it comes as a link that will open up in maps, and from there you can save it to a contact, so copy/paste is not necessary in that situation. I had an HTC 8125 (then 8525 after I had to return the 8125 3 times in 90 days, so AT&T upgraded me for free) and I honestly never once used copy/paste. If I wanted to send some text from a webpage on the iPhone to a friend, I would take a screenshot by holding down the home button and sleep button for a second and then email the picture (you could also press the + icon on the bottom of the webpage and email the link). Of course, I'm just a student and maybe you are more business oriented, in which case I can understand wanting copy/paste. Also, I live in Houston and moved here two years ago, there are still lots of places in this city I don't know and maps has saved me many times. Street view is a much more helpful update for me. I think there are a lot of variables that makes people disagree on this copy/paste issue.

MadCow234

@chasema: Would that mean that apps can use the button on the mic of the earbuds? So that you could use voice dialing apps without getting your phone out and pressing a button which completely defeats the purpose of voice dialing. Or am I completely wrong on this?

MadCow234

@admoseremic: Maybe the reason they haven't implemented
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is because they don't have enough Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers.

vqro

@Whirl: This is probably what I need most. view my f*king message . com sucks balls. Works about one time out of 3 and it's a royal pain in the a$$.

vqro

@epistemus: I think everyone forgets that other devices (palm, blackberry, winmo devices) have A LOT MORE BUTTONS. That's probably why it's complicated on the iPhone: one button. Copy paste is not trivial on a touch screen when single/double taps already perform certain fuctions and the only button takes you to the home screen. Maybe they can use the volume buttons on the side in conjunction with screen tapping.

vqro

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So guys, how would copy/paste actually work on the iPhone?

I'm waiting.

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