TheSpicyChicken

iPhone OS 3.0 – Copy & Paste is Buggy

Posted March 17th, 2009 by Spicy

As an iPhone developer I have been able to the play around with the new 3.0 firmware. Overall I have to say that I am very pleased. I think my favorite new feature so far is the search. It pretty much looks and behaves just like QuickGold, if you have a jailbroken phone and have used that before. Very handy.

What I have found most dissapointing is the interface for Copy and Paste. I loaded up the CNN front page and tried to copy a few phrases. It didn’t go so well. It keeps trying to copy the entire text. Then it displays little crop buttons, but don’t even think of trying to use them. If you drag toward the edge of the screen (like when you’d want to scroll down) they switch modes and become completely unusable.

Perhaps with some more time I would be able to figure out how to use it nicely, but this is way outside of “it just works” right now. Hopefully the Apple designers will be improving this feature before 3.0 is released to the public. Otherwise there are going to be a lot of very frustrated people out there.

Oh, and not having to enter my username/password every time I need to log into a website. Priceless.

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