Comments on: [feature] Copy-and-Paste still missing in iPhone; Blame Apple’s Obsessive Nature

By: Ish

Ish — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:44:51 +0000

Mail is the perfect way to forward a picture. I certainly prefer it to MMS which is quite costly where as the Mail App falls within ones usage allowance. I don’t have an endless pit of money so the picture message issue really isn’t one for me at all.

As for copy and paste. I’m more than happy to wait. I would much prefer the implementation of copy and paste to enhance the integrity of UI than to compromise it with a poorly executed release. I find it very reassuring that a company takes great pains to make things that work very well.

By: Aviv

Aviv — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:36:44 +0000

@Gary: Agreed. Both sides of the argument are heavily “controversial” and argumentative. It’s really just a matter of what they think is more important than the other one. Is the entire UI more important the just copy/paste? Is copy/paste important enough to rush it out for consumer demand?

One could argue both sides claiming that Apple already has this done but just doesn’t have it high enough on the priority list. Others would say that Apple is reinventing copy/paste and we’ll see it soon enough. Others will say Apple hasn’t figured it out, while others would believe that Apple doesn’t even care in the slightest.

As with most Apple “products” or upgrades, we won’t know about this one until it happens.

By: Gary

Gary — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:54:33 +0000

I follow your reasoning- up to a point. But when interface design gets in the way of providing essential features- and cut/copy and paste is essential- then its the interface design thats at fault, not the required function. Sacrificing an essential feature to preserve a treasured interface arrangement is insane.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:28:20 +0000

I’m discouraging all my friends from buying an iPhone since I’m often unable to complete a task because of this lack!
If they still would I could sell mine…

By: Tamas

Tamas — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:29:30 +0000

The difference between MMS and an email with picture is as big as between an SMS and an email (without picture). Who would argue to get rid of SMS because there is email on the iPhone? Similarly it’s absurd to argue to get rid of MMS because you can send pictures by email. Also, saying that the lack of MMS is good because it isn’t free is just as absurd as saying that lets get rid of the SMS capability because that’s not free either. A proper phone in 2008 (and almost 10 years ago already) had SMS MMS capabilities, letting us decide if we wanted to use them. I wouldn’t even go into the copy/paste issue…anyone can see that these are essentials and so is the forwarding capability of messages (SMS MMS).

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:47:28 +0000

Finally…Reasoning for the missing copy/paste feature that actually makes sense! Bravo! I believe you are so right, but am confident that Apple will soon create a solution to this seemingly simple problem.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:02:19 +0000

I prefer Mail since it’s included in the data charge and MMS would another extra fee. When I first got my iPhone, my wife had a V3xx and I could send her pictures with no trouble. She could also send them to me, she just had to use my email address instead of my phone number. All she had to do was add it one time to my contact info.

I’ll take Mail over additional fees any day.

By: Deejay

Deejay — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:07:07 +0000

@Jeff: It’s called Mail?

Mail is not a proper replacement for something like MMS. I may agree with the statement that regular voicemail is dead, but regular MMS picture messaging is NOT.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:02:45 +0000

“If Apple can develop apps like Visual Voicemail, iPhone Safari, the Mail App, iTunes Store, App Store and the entire iPhone SDK, why can’t we get a simple picture sending application, or some sort of copy-and-paste integration into the typing sections of each app?”

They do have a “picture sending app”; it’s called Mail. Copy and paste would be nice, though.