iPhone Copy and Paste still a Possibility
A report from ExtremeTech said that they were able to talk to Apple’s head of iPod and iPhone marketing, Greg Joswiak, on launch day, July 11. They asked two very common questions about possible features of Apple’s iPhone. they basically asked about the copy paste and GPS feature on the iPhone.
When asked about the iPhone’s lack of copy and paste functionality, Joswiak stated that they were not specifically against the feature, they have a prioritized list of features and were only able to get down the list so far with this product release. As a result, it seems that there is still a possibility of seeing the copy and paste feature in a future software update.
And how about the GPS? Many developers have said that Apple’s SDK license agreement prohibits the development of driving-directions apps, and the New York Times’s David Pogue muddied the waters by saying that the iPhone’s GPS isn’t physically capable of providing driving directions. “According to Apple, the iPhone’s G.P.S. antenna is much too small to emulate the turn-by-turn navigation of a G.P.S. unit for a vehicle,” Pogue wrote.
The iPhone’s GPS is just like the GPS in other phones, many of which do provide driving directions. Rather, there are some murky “complicated issues” preventing driving directions apps at the moment. “It will evolve. I think our developers will amaze us,” Josiak said.
Apple also announced that they have sold over 1 million units of the new iPhone 3G and 10 million applications have already been downloaded from the App Store. There are still long lines at Apple Stores across the country for the iPhone so this number will still grow rapidly if not exponentially.
