[wilhil]

It reminds me when I was at a user group at Microsoft for the launch of the new Windows Phone OS...

... The guy gave a long marketing speech about how "beautiful" it was, how they did so much user research on what people wanted and spent a fortune developing and using a brand new font for the interface(s).

Then, someone stuck their hand up and said "Is it true that you don't have copy/paste features yet?"

Why can't people learn... things may be important, but no one cares about the technicalities... I don't care if this is algorithm, AI, ML... neural network processing or some other fancy new term...

... just give the user a setting for what screen something should pop up on and everyone will be happy!

[emodendroket]

The iPhone also didn't have copy and paste for a while. And the trade-off with more options is they're work to maintain and users are confused by them.

[wilhil]

Yep - but, the iPhone came from nowhere, and, "no copy and paste" was put out by Microsoft to say how bad it was...

Microsoft basically took a backwards step from Windows CE and then did the same years after it was the norm in other systems.