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Is that right? Man, did not recall that... funny how the state of apps today has colored my recollection.

• mandeepj 3y ago
  > Is that right? Absolutely! I also remember those chain of events exactly that way. They are also documented in Steve Jobs biography as well.
• mh- 3y ago
  Matches my recollection of it. iOS 3.0, which launched alongside the iPhone 3GS, is when it got copy-paste functionality. Apple has historically been very comfortable shipping devices without "table stakes" functionality - waiting until they have an implementation they like. Or sometimes never shipping it, and leaving it to third parties. My iPads still don't have a calculator app.
  • izacus 3y ago
    It also kinda needs to be said that iPhone really took off after AppStore (and 3G and copy/paste and other stuff) became a thing. Before that the market share wasn't that great.
    • threeseed 3y ago
      The market share wasn't great because it wasn't sold globally. Once that happened market share really took off.
      • jdminhbg 3y ago
        And in the markets it did exist, the carrier options were limited, usually to the worst carriers, because those were the carriers who were desperate enough to accept Apple's terms.
• rahoulb 3y ago
  Even John Gruber (Daring Fireball) described it as a shit sandwich from Apple.