Yes, cut-paste is certainly a very fundamental functionality given the existing landscape of computers, existing content and the way people have expressed using

Yes, cut-paste is certainly a very fundamental functionality given the existing landscape of computers, existing content and the way people have expressed using the medium so far. I find typing on iPad's virtual keyboard clunky enough that I generally doodle my messages to my friends/wife when on the iPad. Good thing is that I am able to write in Hindi, my mother tongue, by doodling! Cut-paste experience on the iPad is horrible. It's not just clunky rather an impossible feat for my fingers given the text being in a small area that I want select and paste elsewhere.