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I don't think they've ever claimed to be the inventors of copy and paste on a mobile device. In fact, I remember them admitting being late to the party with tha

I don't think they've ever claimed to be the inventors of copy and paste on a mobile device. In fact, I remember them admitting being late to the party with that particular feature.

axod 16y ago
I think it's more the fact that they even bother to make an announcement about such a simple feature as copy+paste. They should be announcing cool awesome features no other device has got. Here's some 'wow' features on my Nexus One which I didn't even know existed when I had my iPhone: * Google translate - talk into the phone, select language, it speaks in french etc for you. Awesome. The speech recognition is truly amazing. * Google sky view - shows you stars etc * Google goggles - take pics of stuff, google tells you about them, prices etc etc * You can use an mp3 as a ringtone! * Over the air OS updates. No stupid iTunes stuff * mp3s, photos, etc all just saved on the card - removable storage * record videos, share via email, youtube, etc etc
- potatolicious 16y ago
  > "They should be announcing cool awesome features no other device has got." God no. Apple has rarely ever introduced any features that is simply unheard of on other devices. That is not Apple's core strength: their strength is doing the same things everyone is already doing, but doing it better, making it more accessible and usable, and giving it sleekness and sexiness that it simply did not have before. Apple is never at the very forefront of raw functionality, it's at the forefront of accessibility and usability. Even now, it's fairly well acknowledged that Apple's copy/paste is the slickest/easiest implementation out there on a mobile device. They were late to the game (and admitted themselves as such) but they did it better than the incumbents. I'm not sure where this Apple hate comes from, with the "hur hur hur Apple plays other people's inventions off like their own!" - this has rarely ever been the case.
  - axod 16y ago
    "it's fairly well acknowledged that Apple's copy/paste is the slickest/easiest implementation out there on a mobile device." I strongly disagree with that. Provide some evidence. For me, it has a false positive rate of about 50% - eg half the time I'm trying to scroll and the copy thing pops up. Also I think that in the past Apple has innovated. The magnetic power supply connector on the Macbook is still one of my favorite features. That's a 'wow cool' feature other laptops don't have.

I don't think they've ever claimed to be the inventors of copy and paste on a mobile device. In fact, I remember them admitting being late to the party with that particular feature.

axod 16y ago

I think it's more the fact that they even bother to make an announcement about such a simple feature as copy+paste. They should be announcing cool awesome features no other device has got. Here's some 'wow' features on my Nexus One which I didn't even know existed when I had my iPhone: * Google translate - talk into the phone, select language, it speaks in french etc for you. Awesome. The speech recognition is truly amazing. * Google sky view - shows you stars etc * Google goggles - take pics of stuff, google tells you about them, prices etc etc * You can use an mp3 as a ringtone! * Over the air OS updates. No stupid iTunes stuff * mp3s, photos, etc all just saved on the card - removable storage * record videos, share via email, youtube, etc etc

potatolicious 16y ago
> "They should be announcing cool awesome features no other device has got." God no. Apple has rarely ever introduced any features that is simply unheard of on other devices. That is not Apple's core strength: their strength is doing the same things everyone is already doing, but doing it better, making it more accessible and usable, and giving it sleekness and sexiness that it simply did not have before. Apple is never at the very forefront of raw functionality, it's at the forefront of accessibility and usability. Even now, it's fairly well acknowledged that Apple's copy/paste is the slickest/easiest implementation out there on a mobile device. They were late to the game (and admitted themselves as such) but they did it better than the incumbents. I'm not sure where this Apple hate comes from, with the "hur hur hur Apple plays other people's inventions off like their own!" - this has rarely ever been the case.
- axod 16y ago
  "it's fairly well acknowledged that Apple's copy/paste is the slickest/easiest implementation out there on a mobile device." I strongly disagree with that. Provide some evidence. For me, it has a false positive rate of about 50% - eg half the time I'm trying to scroll and the copy thing pops up. Also I think that in the past Apple has innovated. The magnetic power supply connector on the Macbook is still one of my favorite features. That's a 'wow cool' feature other laptops don't have.