Oracle AppsLab - Latest Comments in Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .

Re: Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .

jkuramot — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:54:41 -0000

Yeah, I saw that too. This is me acting surprised.

I guess the best we can hope for is this whole thing bumped up the priority of copy/paste on Apple's to do list.

Re: Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .

brianbent — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:11:39 -0000

Unfortunately it looks likes Apple is breaking OpenClip in the 2.1 release of the software. I agree with you Jake. This is one of those necessary apps that should have been in there from the beginning.

Re: Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .

jkuramot — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:50:54 -0000

Very good and detailed writeup of OpenClip, thanks.

My faith in Android keeps waning the longer it takes to come to market, but yes, we can hope it would/will push Apple to open the iPhone more. The iPhone has a huge amount of smart thinking around it (outside Apple), and harnessing that seems like a way to make it truly awesome.

Am I the only one whose bored by apps?

Re: Copy and Paste for the iPhone? Sort of . . .

Drew — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:38:52 -0000

Not that Gruber is the end-all be-all on iPhone dev, but he makes some cogent points on where the copy-paste ui falls down at http://daringfireball.net/2008/08/raining_on_th... . Specifically the part about separate clipboard stores for each app. If this is right then the cache mgmt issues are significant and the potential for Apple to break things later is also high. I'd love to see the iPhone open up a little more. I'm hopeful that an improved and in the wild Android will keep them on their toes and eventually get them to support the same kinds of third party efforts that enhance Mac OS X. Meanwhile we're all waiting for copy and paste still for more than one reason.