OpenClip Brings Real Copy And Paste To The iPhone, But It Isn’t The Solution

via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on 8/20/08 It’s a shame, really. A team of developers have partnered to finally bring a legitimate copy and paste solution to the iPhone - one that can actually move data between different applications (previous solutions could only shuffle data within the same app). But as great as it is to see a team of developers work together to overcome one of the iPhone’s shortcomings, it probably won’t see much use. A few weeks ago, Proximi released a new text client called MagicPad that included copy and paste - a feature the iPhone has lacked and one that many users have been demanding for over a year. Copy and paste was achieved through a fairly intuitive interface, and while it may not have had the same polish that an Apple-designed solution might offer, it got the job done. Unfortunately, all copy and pasting was restricted to within MagicPad. Now Zac White has developed an open source solution to the issue called OpenClip, a platform that will allow developers to include cross...

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