Can you describe a situation where you need to copy/paste? I dont get it. I will never use it. All the basica situation is already provided. Say I want to share a URL link, the button is ALREADY in safari. All the phone numbers email addresses are already clickable, so nope not there either. What exactly do you need it for??
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Why do you need copy/paste?? I don't understand
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why do you care if it can be a convenience?
seriously, i want to use it to copy a link in safari and paste in an email messge or text message for example. there are COUNTLESS examples
i really dont understand people who defend apple's decisions....
why do you care if it can be a convenience?
seriously, i want to use it to copy a link in safari and paste in an email messge or text message for example. there are COUNTLESS examples
i really dont understand people who defend apple's decisions....
Why cant you just click the "mail link to this page" button? why?
The reason I care is because if Apple did copy and paste that means some other USEFUL feature just got pushed back. No thanks.
Well, then, pseudo-troll, please name a feature that you deem to be more USEFUL than copy/paste.
Don't you dare say MMS.
once again, is your imagination to how this is used so limited? seriously what about copying directions from maps to an email? do i really need to list the countless examples for you?
and for your last comment, please. once again, im amazed at how people defend what apple does
what feature do you deem "useful"? doesnt matter as maybe i dont think your "useful" feature is "useful" to me
why do you post a thread on this and then criticize how we USE copy and paste. grow up
The ability to cut bits out of quoted text in my email replies would help me an awful lot. At the moment I have to make a decision when I read an email: can I be arsed deleting everything by holding down the backspace key or creating a new email with the same subject line addressed to the same people. I would settle for a "do not quote original text in replies" setting, though being able to cut out the crap and keeping the salient bits would be more useful.
vodafone and mybank senda me passeords by sms
I wqnt to tale note of important stuff in the web
I want C&P. Why? My business. I do not need to justify my needs to anyone, other than Mr. Jobs. Unless you are Steve Jobs or an authorized agent of Apple, go play in traffic.
I used it 100 times a day for a dozen different things on my WM phones. It's nothing short of f**ked that the iPhone doesn't do it when it's such basic functionality on even freebie phones the carriers throw away.
Not everyone finds push as useful as copy/paste (of course I will prolly never use copy/paste...but push I definitely want).
Notifications can be used for social networking applications and auction applications.
Copy/paste can be used in more applications than notifications.
Anyway, here's examples:
Tracking numbers
Instant Messengers (copying a part of the chat to archive or give to someone else or set as profile, copying a link to paste into chat, copying an address from address book to give to a friend, )
Blogging Applications
All the office applications (like the various spreadsheet and notes applications)
Wi-Fi network keys
Calculator
Copying quotes from books or verses from sacred texts
Copying and pasting bits and pieces of multiple emails into one email
There are more...
I think people should just use their computer. I don't need to do everything on an iphone. I think that's the problem people want everything on it and it's not meant for that.
the only thing i really really want on this thing is a good video recorder.. That's it....
well by golly, just use your computer for video recording
LOL....how about it. Make a few phone calls with your computer, if it's so incredibly convenient, and we'll talk.
Which leads to....probably more important than this copy/paste thing is why do some people insist...INSIST...on standing in the way of more functionality of ANY kind? Useful, useless, questionable...whatever, if anyone suggests anything at all, there's going to be 8 pages of people whining about it as if they have some personal stake in every CPU cycle and line of code used inthe iPhone. What do you do, write to Apple's feedback page saying "Don't you DARE add anything new to the iPhone!"? So YOU don't see a need for copy/paste or MMS or a considerably more open bluetooth or a fellator module? Fine. Shut up and get out of the way of those of us who DO.
Without copy/paste, I can't do this.
I spend a lot of time reading and posting in forums. In one particular forum, I am a moderator, and as such, I post a lot of links, in order to help people find what they're looking for.
I can't do that without copy & paste, unless I either write down and remember a long url, and then I still have to be sure to type it without errors.
Life would be a lot simpler with copy & paste on my iPhone.
I spend a lot of time reading and posting in forums. In one particular forum, I am a moderator, and as such, I post a lot of links, in order to help people find what they're looking for.
I can't do that without copy & paste, unless I either write down and remember a long url, and then I still have to be sure to type it without errors.
Life would be a lot simpler with copy & paste on my iPhone.
There's another example... Did you type that response again, or simply use copy & paste?
Wow... I just thought of another big one...
Sometimes, I'll quote someone in a forum, in order to respond to something specific that they said. I don't need all of their quote though... just part of it.
As it is now, I have to manually delete the part that I don't need.
With copy/paste, I could much more efficiently delete the superfluous text.
Sometimes, I'll quote someone in a forum, in order to respond to something specific that they said. I don't need all of their quote though... just part of it.
As it is now, I have to manually delete the part that I don't need.
With copy/paste, I could much more efficiently delete the superfluous text.