I’m confused, the iPhone does not run MacOSX, it runs a derivative thereof tailored to the phone, so copy and paste would have to be put in, not taken out.

“That reason is that they do not want the iphone to contain the basic features of a desktop computing platform.”

Excuse me for not knowing about the latest Apple conspiracy theory, but why do you ascribe these motives to Apple?

Personally, I am in no hurry for copy/paste and I believe Apple will put it in at some point, but then again – I am not looking for nefarious reasons, remember occam’s razor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam’s_Razor

Copy and paste is innate to MacOSX, *it had to be turned off* or disabled from the iphone version of the OS. Apple’s not fooling anyone, and the still-in-effect Developer NDA, as well as these suprise! behaviors with the [cr]AppStore are a testament to Jobsian arrogance and stupidity.

Now ask yourself who would want to limit the iphone in that way; the answer is the carriers. The carriers do not have the back end[s] in their networks to support full mobile computing. Jobs still needs their dead hands.

There’s your mule; the future is held in check by a bunch of mediocre telcos. And by a bloke named SJobs who is NEXTing his baby into the ground. Gates went away gracefully at the top of his game; Jobs will do no such thing.

Better get used to Windows, because here we go again… John Sculley where are you?

Why are people in such desperate need of cut & paste?