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Originally Posted by scottjl
copy and paste on the iphone is a horrible kludge compared to what you could do on the newton. double-tap a word, or tap, hold and drag a block of text. drag it to the edge of the screen. go to where you want it and drop it off. needed multiple blocks? drag them one at a time they all hung out at the edge. simple and it worked. i never seem to get selection properly on my iphone, dragging those left and right side pins is a total PITA. i'm limited to one block at a time and have no visual way to know what is in the clipboard.
jobs didn't do it right on the iphone, he did it different. because he hated the newton and wouldn't be caught dead borrowing from it.
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i think copy paste on the iphone is quite elegant. sure, it's not a multiple clipboard system, and the newton's was very cool (i had an mp2000) but it was overkill for 90% of people.
they may implement a system closer to the newton's with the ipad since it has enough screen real estate compared to the iphone, but i would doubt it.