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by scarface74 2555 days ago
Really? Apple “stole” the idea of cut copy and paste? That was a criticism from day one on the phone. The other was not supporting MMS.
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Causality1 2555 days ago
It doesn't seem to have been obvious to Apple, considering it took them two full years after the iPhone's launch to implement the feature.
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scarface74 2555 days ago
Well. You can go back and listen to podcast interviews by some of the early iPhone developers and they will tell you that they were thinking about that from day one.

But to think Apple - the company that had implemented copy and paste on Macs 23 years before then wasn’t thinking about copy and paste until they saw it on jailbroken phones is silly.

It’s equally crazy thinking that Apple didn’t think about implementing a standard phone feature until they saw in the jail broken apps.

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berbec 2555 days ago
And tried to make a compelling argument that MMS is passé. Everyone who needs MMS should use email instead.
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scarface74 2555 days ago
Jobs also said that no one would want an iPod with video two years before Apple introduced one or an iPod + phone.

He also said that you could make great apps by using the web. Until they turned around and introduced a native SDK nine months later....

Are you now going to say they “stole” the idea of an App Store from the few developers who were putting apps on jailbroken iPhones between July 2007 and April 2008?

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