Comments on: iPhone Copy and Paste?

By: iPhone Apps

iPhone Apps — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:05:26 +0000

iPhone Copy and Paste Coming to an App Store Near You – http://www.appleiphoneapps.com/2008/07/iphone-copy-and-paste-coming-to-an-app-store-near-you/

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:22:18 +0000

there you go..if you made this public before Apple apply for patent, they won`t be able to patent it since it is now “public domain”.

You could have make some money selling this to Apple instead of posting in the idea in your blog.

(maybe it is already patented but not implemented..they need to keep us happy paying for those 20$ “upgrades”)

By: doug petrosky

doug petrosky — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:45:30 +0000

Maybe, but probably not. Too much mandatory slow down in selection. I say you simply bring up the loop, position to where you want and then pinch out to select text. Then you could use a popup message as described but seeing as apple has already define a method for copy (three fingers spread apart on the screen and then brought together as if to pick something up of the screen). Then a reverse of this process to paste. Set your insertion point, three (or more) fingers on the screen together and spread them out.

You can look up apple’s patented filing on finger cords to get more ideas.

By: KeynoteKen

KeynoteKen — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:47:42 +0000

Most people are concentrating on text because that’s the classic and obvious use of cut and paste (going all the way back to ancient text editors). However, there is so much more on the phone, there’s audio, there’s video, there’s pictures, all of which Apple probably wants to handle similar to the way it’s handled in OSX (where you have a master pasteboard that can potentially hold several versions of a copied item). I’d even figure that the text copying problem was solved long ago, and now they’re working on what happens when you copy and image into an email message, will they allow copying images from web pages, how to copy a series of objects (or a non-continuous series), and more.

The solution, whatever it is, will have to work for not only text, but all of the media on the iPhone. A lot of people will be happy to have simple text copy/paste, but a lot more will be amazed at what eventually is released. :)

By: Shay

Shay — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:34:31 +0000

Hey there, I’m interested in how this will work out. I don’t have a iPod touch or even an iPhone yet though. If your idea gets implemented, then I congratulate you. :)

By: MrBuzz

MrBuzz — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:27:36 +0000

Chris, if you have to brag to stay popular then they;re not really your friends. :P

I agree with you that you’d need 16GB to future proof it but, as otimistic as I am, I can’t see you needing 32GB before your ready to put this MacPro to rest.

Still, if you get a good deal on 32GB take it…. you never know if you might need it for something else.

By: Ray Zed Blog

Ray Zed Blog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

benwilson: Seeing as they are developing a new kind of user-interface here that will no doubt extend well past the realms of the iPhone, I think they are nervous they would add a feature that wasn’t as good as current the mouse interface method

By: iPhone Problem - Learn more about iPhone Problems

iPhone Problem - Learn more about iPhone Problems — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

iphoneroethwrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Brendan Sheehan believes he’s figured out the “perfect” Copy & Paste solution for Apple to implement on the iPhone… Firstly, I think the reason we haven’t seen a solution to this