The ability to imitate and glue school text on the iPhone has overstep many a leaning of missing features , especially now that the 2.0 package has been released to the world at large . But the fact that copy - and - library paste is miss from the iPhone is even more gross now that the 2.0 software has been released .
With the first major version of the iPhone package , Apple did a skillful job of anticipating the most common scenario in which you might want to imitate and paste textual matter — an electronic mail destination or a hyperlink , for illustration . It provided hooks in those cases that let you tap on such text and have the phone take you to the space where you ’d most likely need to utilise it . There were break in their appraoch , to be sure — physical addresses in electronic mail , for representative , or other arbitrary selective information that you might need to look for for in Google .
But with the plus of the App Store and third - party app , the problem of how to move data around the phone has increased exponentially . When Apple had consummate control of all the programs on the phone , it was a unsubdivided topic for it to determine the places where you could transfer information from one app to another . That ’s not the case anymore , though : now there are potentially oodles of programs on a phone that might want to interchange info with one another .
developer have chosen to deal this in different ways : some have built extra functionality into their programs ( NetNewsWire and Twitterrific , for exemplar , incorporate their own web browsers for letting you take after a connection without leaving the program ) , others have added meat hooks to other third - party computer program ( Flickr browser app Exposure , for lesson , which lets you post to Twitter — if you have Twitterrific installed ) .
All these Modern possible uses scream out for some sort of iPhone - broad framework for moving arbitrary information from one position to another . Nowhere was this driven family to me more than this morning when I tried out the newWordPress iPhone app . While it was surprisingly soft to write a web log Charles William Post from my iPhone , it quick became apparent that I would n’t be inserting a lot of link on the fly . My patchy forgetful term memory means there ’s no path I can possibly re - typecast anything but the most basic URL without fall back to writing it down on a piece of a newspaper — and the typing of universal resource locator themselves is a bother in the neck opening that rivals conviction diagramming .
Sure , maybe NetNewsWire could bestow a hooking that would have you institutionalize a link to WordPress or the TypePad program , but if there are of a sudden ten blogging applications and ten RSS readers , that ’s probably run low to be a less attractive option for their developer to stomach .
But given the amount and bulk of demand among iPhone users , I ’ll be a Super Monkey Ball ’s uncle if they ’re not already work on it somewhere in the depths of 1 Infinite Loop .
