Every feature on the macOS sales page today is something that macOS shipped without for almost 20 years (and Mac OS for almost 20 years before that). That's wh

Every feature on the macOS sales page today is something that macOS shipped without for almost 20 years (and Mac OS for almost 20 years before that). That's what sales pages are for: they show off the new features. Apple didn't withhold copy/paste out of spite. They were shipping a completely new platform, and you can't do everything in 1.0. For comparison, with the first version of the Macintosh system software, copy/paste crashed 50% of the time: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Cut,_Paste_and_Crash.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...