What do you think about the article, “Kevin Rose: How iPhone Copy + Paste will work”?
Kevin Rose: How iPhone Copy + Paste will work Sunday’s headline out of the South by Southwest Interactive 2009 conference now underway in Austin, Texas, is Kevin (“Digg”) Rose’s “confirmation” that Apple (AAPL) will finally introduce a copy-and-paste function in iPhone 3.0, the update to the device’s basic operating system scheduled to be unveiled at a special event this Tuesday, March 17. Rose made the announcement during a raucous on-site taping of Diggnation, a weekly podcast he hosts with Alex Albrecht. The moment was captured on video by Derek Steen, an Australian photographer, and first appeared here. A YouTube version is pasted below the fold. (Warning: strong language.) Copy and paste is one of the iPhone’s most-asked-for features. According to Rose, Apple has implemented it as a multi-step process: 1. You double tap on a word (or, presumably, an insertion point) 2. A kind of magnifying glass appears with quote marks on either side of the selection 3. You drag the quote marks f
I think this article about how the iPhone Copy + Paste will work is interesting. The iPhone’s new copy and paste feature appears to be similar to the MagicPad. Here is the article from The Apple Blog: With trademark confidence, Kevin Rose was pretty vocal about what we could expect to see from the new iPhone 3.0 software this Tuesday, and he claims to have it on good authority from a source who’s “been right before.” The basic purpose of the update, according to Rose, is to anticipate and match features that the Palm Pre is advertising that the iPhone does not yet have. Chief among these features is that mythical beast of iPhone legend, copy and paste. Rose described the upcoming feature, which he claims is definitely in iPhone 3.0, in his Diggnation podcast this past Sunday. The implementation sounds similar to the copy and paste we’ve already seen from MagicPad, which, you may recall, was the first individual, official app to bring copy and paste to the iPhone, though it was not plat
