Copy and Paste Implementation, Exchange Support for iPhone?
The validity of the comments are in question as it seems unlikely that an Apple employee with this knowledge would necessarily speak freely about it at Macworld. The claim is that iPhone Copy and Paste is being actively developed, but how exactly to implement the functionality appears to be up for debate.
The trouble it is having is implementation. How to easily call up a copy or cut option and then the paste action. Its probable that the zoom bubble (the one that brings up the edit cursor) is the issue as it has removed the obvious tap and hold position from Apple to use for a pop-up menu of some sort. Text selection is another difficulty to sort out. Certainly, the cursor could be added to the menu selection; however, Apple wants to keep this as simple as possible and that added step would not lend itself to simple.
Historically, Apple had already addressed a menu-less copy/paste in their previous touch-based handheld, the Newton. A description and video shows how Apple implemented Copy/Paste on the Newton, though it would conflict with the press-hold magnifying glass in the iPhone.
Other iPhone users have suggested alternate possibilities (screenshot, mockup video) but these also suffer from complexity issues.
Meanwhile, the Apple representative also claimed that "Apple's aware of the Exchange need" but stopped short of confirming that it was coming.
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I just want to be able to open/edit PAGES DOCS ON THE friggin thing!
Now a better way to get to my exchange server than through Outlook WebAccess. That would be nice.
And if it is between the two, Apple has to have Exchange as the priority. It is what holds it back from getting more penetration into the business market.
Though, in parallel to that is AT&T support for corporate accounts. When my company tried to add the iPhone to their existing accounts AT&T would not allow it.
Hopefully they will settle on a Copy/Paste method by the time the SDK is ready, so that app developers won't try to invent their own conflicting methods.
That is a good point. With the current set of applications I don't need it. Though what application would you want to create that would need it?
Would it not be better to allow more smart tag like functions? i.e. I don't need to copy a phone number because the iPhone recognizes that.
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I'd sell my future first born just for effective cut and paste in Leopard.
Leopard has that feature.[ Read All Comments ]
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