Cut and paste is coming to the iPhone - but not from Apple. Seems developers over at the Open Clip project have been scratching their heads to figure out how to bring this most-requested feature to the device. Watch the video below then we’ll give you the skinny after the jump.
As you’ll have seen, Open Clip’s solution is simple, workable and supported: essentially it saves copy you select within an area of the iPhone’s memory which can then be accessed by other apps using the Open Clip framework. And the roll call of developers planning to use and support the solution includes: Dial Zero, Twittelator, Wordpress, Cocktail, Ultralingua and more.
We reckon many more developers will want to get involved in the project, unless Apple offers users a definitive road map for copy and paste support. We hate it that we need to memorise a story before publishing it to this blog, for example, and lack of such support is bound to cost Apple sales.
“While just an interim fix until Apple adopts a system-wide version, OpenClip hopes to add to the iPhone user-experience and provide a working case-study for Apple, hopefully allowing them to roll-out their version more quickly,” the open source developers explained on their website.
Clearly the real value of this is forcing Apple's hand and getting Copy/Paste implemented system wide.
The only way I can understand Apple continuing to drag their feet on this is if the task is herculean in nature -- in other words that it is so fundamental in nature that Apple will have to rip-up/change almost every app on the phone to implement it.
I can truly say that is the ONLY thing I miss from my 5+ year old Treo -- Copy/Paste.
Apple says that copy and paste is not high on their priority list; I just wonder whether their priority list is based on arbitrary decision by someone at Apple or is it based on user experience and requests to integrate a system wide copy & paste in the iPhone.
apple sees the iphone as a platform, and as such they see that their implementation of copy / paste will be the way it is for 20 years to come, not just for the iphone but for any other devices based on the same platform in the future, and maybe (as with lots of things taken from the mac to windows) it coud set an industry standard, so it is VERY important to get it right, so they are not rushing. - this is how i see it anyway.
Apparently Apple has forgotten the brilliant finger/stylus oriented interface of the Newton Messagepad. Click and hold to enable select - drag to select text. (either across the word or circle a block/paragraph).
Drag that block quickly to the edge of the screen and it hangs there until you grab it and drop the block into another app.
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Get on with it Apple !!
Clearly the real value of this is forcing Apple's hand and getting Copy/Paste implemented system wide.
The only way I can understand Apple continuing to drag their feet on this is if the task is herculean in nature -- in other words that it is so fundamental in nature that Apple will have to rip-up/change almost every app on the phone to implement it.
I can truly say that is the ONLY thing I miss from my 5+ year old Treo -- Copy/Paste.
Copy-&-Paste for iPhone
Apple says that copy and paste is not high on their priority list; I just wonder whether their priority list is based on arbitrary decision by someone at Apple or is it based on user experience and requests to integrate a system wide copy & paste in the iPhone.
Apple needs to hire more
Apple needs to hire more people.
apple sees the iphone as a
apple sees the iphone as a platform, and as such they see that their implementation of copy / paste will be the way it is for 20 years to come, not just for the iphone but for any other devices based on the same platform in the future, and maybe (as with lots of things taken from the mac to windows) it coud set an industry standard, so it is VERY important to get it right, so they are not rushing. - this is how i see it anyway.
Apparently Apple has
Apparently Apple has forgotten the brilliant finger/stylus oriented interface of the Newton Messagepad. Click and hold to enable select - drag to select text. (either across the word or circle a block/paragraph).
Drag that block quickly to the edge of the screen and it hangs there until you grab it and drop the block into another app.
Seamless. Unobtrusive. Brilliant.
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