It seems more like you don't understand the concept of shipping a minimum viable product.While Android copy and paste did require getting used to...
The fact that my _Original iPhone_DID NOT_ Have Copy & Paste was Apple hypocrisy at it's most blatant.
A rather lame 2G phone with NO Copy and Paste, when all the rest had 3G plus Copy & Paste, put Apple to Shame
But as you can see the Apple devotees didn't' care about such trivia... ha..ha..ha...
Other phones had 3G data, but shipped with crappy browsers that had such a crappy browsing experience, people hardly used it.
If lack of 3G had been such a dealbreaker, the iPhone would never have gone on to become successful.
The iPhone was not perfect. The main difference was that Apple knew better than anyone else what compromises to make in their devices and it shows in their sales and profits.