Uh, Hello? Cut-and-Paste!?!

November 11, 2008 at 1:00 pm PT

November 21. That’s the day iPhone 2.2 is rumored to arrive at market. And when, or if, it does, it’s expected to include some slick new features. Among them:

Enhancements to Google Maps, including support for Google Street View, plus bus schedules and walking directions
Support for over-the-air podcast updates via the iTunes Store
An app-scoring feature that allows users to rate applications purchased from the the App Store before deleting them
Support for line-in audio via the iPhone’s headphone jack

Wonderful additions to the platform, all of them. Of course, there are still quite a few missing. MMS support would be nice, wouldn’t it? As would support for Flash and the ability to compose messages in landscape mode.

And what about cut-and-paste? Seriously, at this point, it’s almost like Apple (AAPL) is purposely withholding it, out of spite.

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Sam Harrison

i’m waiting til a rival comes out with a touch screen that addresses user needs better…and it will
david kahanovitch

You must be clairvoyant…maybe not the right word..I complained to the Firefox people yesterday that their nightly build code-named “Minefield” didn’t support copy/paste. I don’t think I’ll receive a response, as this has been an issue with FF before. It seems that I have to use the middle button of the mouse.
For FF junkies, google minefield and you will find the way to daily automatic builds.