MagicPad (with Copy and Paste) and Proposal for System-Wide Copy and Paste

I'd love to see this because it would stop some of the whining....

Nice PR stunt MagicPad guys.



Look up Hubris. But then again you will get some links to this and prob. sell more apps which I am betting was the goal in the first place since to say apple (you know, the copy the invented the iphone and pioneered the use of cut copy and paste for over 25 years now) does not have this worked out internally is arrogance.


It's called priorities. And they simply have not gotten around to it yet. Hopefully with 2.1.

Solid. I have a feeling Apple is already planning on implementing something that works practically identical to this method.

Either way, if you want something done right... you make your own video tutorial of it, haha.

That's a lot of work for select. What's wrong with using two fingers?. It seems to me the simpler and more elegant solution would be to select the start location with the current magnification tool, and then add a second finger, for a two fingered drag to the end of the selection.

That's a lot of work for select. What's wrong with using two fingers?. It seems to me the simpler and more elegant solution would be to select the start location with the current magnification tool, and then add a second finger, for a two fingered drag to the end of the selection.

I disagree. What's so hard about double tap and hold?

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I disagree. What's so hard about double tap and hold?

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It's more work, and it's not an intuitive process.

Whenever there are timed processes involved in UI, especially one that would be used so often, it both adds unnecessary complexity (and therefore time) to the process, and a greater margin for error. Can you imagine the frustration of not tapping with the correct timing (which is not so hard to imagine on any touch screen), and having the phone reset your taps so that it takes 5 minutes of frustration to (using the precision model) select your text.

Nice PR stunt MagicPad guys.



Look up Hubris. But then again you will get some links to this and prob. sell more apps which I am betting was the goal in the first place since to say apple (you know, the copy the invented the iphone and pioneered the use of cut copy and paste for over 25 years now) does not have this worked out internally is arrogance.


It's called priorities. And they simply have not gotten around to it yet. Hopefully with 2.1.

This is a bit harsh, don't you think. They are just trying to suggest a solution that Apple deigns is not worth their recent efforts (please tell me that the screen lag in Contacts was a better use of Apple's time than adding copy & paste). Copy & paste has been on every short list of requested software enhancements since iPhone 2g was released, and there's still no sign of it even in the 2.1 beta out there. :rolleyes:

Sorry the Magicpad folks question the emperor's clothes (and no, I am not involved or related in anyway to the Magicpad team).

That's awfully cynical, plumbingandtech... if they were just trying to get sales, they wouldn't have put nearly this much time into it. Apple's lack of taking the initiative is laughable, honestly, and I greatly appreciated this well-thought out work.

People are drooling over this as if it was something never done before. Any smart phone from 8 years back has had this common and necessary feature. Again, Apple is more interested in selling apps on their store than making the phone more useful including something that has been asked for the users for over a year now... BTW, where is Flash? I am sick of getting those blue question mark cubes on 50% of the sites I visit... :confused:

More work than re-typing any text you want to put in another place?

Double tap is a gesture that apple themselves use in the web browser, adding the hold to the gesture allows it to be different and still operate with a single finger.

From playing around with magic pad, it works quite well. I'll be using it instead of the notes application.