Jailbreak is their own problem. Apple and every other developer takes time to plan on the drawing board, code to implement, test it, debug it, beta test it with a team. I know because I've actually seen OS Development through a workshop.
My friend, look at my profile. I've been actually developing OS's and UI's for over thirty years; the last fifteen for mobile devices with touchscreens. I know how long something takes, I know the development cycle, and I know when things aren't planned well.
Apple is a company that wanted perfection - no less,
Apple put out the iPhone as soon as it could, and has winged it since then. Clearly no long term planning or "desire for perfection" was involved.
Apple obviously wanted to have a closed system, under their full control.
Jobs was against mass third party apps at the start. When he offered up web apps, it just made him look bad. Finally he relented to pressure (Android, basically) and allowed crippled native apps. This was clearly not planned out, else he would've laid out the timeline at launch instead of pulling the lame "security issues" excuse.
When it became apparent that the iPhone was too crippled without any backgrounding, they used Java's notification registry scheme but left out the ability to automatically start the target app. Then they were blindsided by the overwhelming interest from developers, and had to rethink the whole system. Not much pre-planning went on there.
Even the fingertip scrolling was an accident; something an engineer stumbled across and so it was added partway through design. Unfortunately they threw the baby out with the bathwater and forgot to give people a way to easily scroll down through long documents. Cuteness won out over usability. No planning there.
Ditto for the idea of putting all apps' settings in one place. That quickly become apparent as a mistake once more than a few apps were available. Not to mention it meant you had to leave the app to change its settings. Hard to think of anything more dumb.
Look, Apple is human. They're not the perfect mechanism young idealists wish they were. They're still figuring things out on the fly. Nothing wrong with that.
Copy and Paste has been asked for so long, originally argued by haters.
Okay, so you're a simple type of user. A consumer of info, not a writer or editor. Others of us use c&p all the time, to chop down paragraphs, copy URLs and other data. Believe me, it's very useful to us. I have associates who refused the iPhone on that point alone.
Palm has not made Apple do anything, no one has.
Good grief. ALL of the competition has made Apple add common features they left out. Same as Apple has caused competitors to step up their game as well.
