Bill Ray scribbles for The Register, “Windows Phone 7 Series won’t be able to cut and paste, as Microsoft continues to create something with all the limitations of the iPhone and little of the charm.”
MacDailyNews Take: That’s funny Bill, except for the fact that Apple offers iPhone OS users the best cut-copy-paste experience in a mobile device by a wide margin.
Ray continues, “Microsoft has confirmed comments made at MIX10 that Windows Phone 7 Series devices won’t be able to cut and paste between applications… “
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s patented IP, and their demonstrated will to protect it, just might have certain would-be copiers back at their drawing boards cobbling together inferior, upside-down and backwards, user-unfriendly methods to attempt to provide their unfortunate customers the means to do poorly what users of Apple’s products already do amazingly easily and well.
Direct link via YouTube here.
Please see also: Windows Phone 7 Series: No multitasking for third-party apps – March 17, 2010
It’s a shame that current research is not required to work at The Register.
It’s amazing to me, the level at which Microsoft strives to copy Apple.
If they would just put as much effort into actually being innovative, and create something new, they could possibly get something real accomplished.
I wonder how long it will take all those who vilified the iPhone for lacking this feature (temporarily), to tell us how it is not that big a deal after all if Windows phone 7 is lacking it.
Ha. See it aint so easy to implement copy and paste on a full multitouch or touch screen UI. So MS can’t figure it out, can’t copy Apple directly, so they gotta sit around and look for someone else to buy it from or rip them off. Lets hear from those TROLLS dissing the iPhone without copy and paste on the get go. I bet they’ll roll over and play like thats fine and its how its suppose to be.
I want to hear from the three stooges on this news. C’mon “Ederle, Dvorak, Thurott” lets hear your take.
Hey, as long as I get my Pandora whilst viewing pornographic material, I’ll be just fine without copy and paste..
Signed,
R2
When the iPhone first came out it did not have cut, copy and paste. Actually for a really long time, so don’t trash microsoft for not having it in their first version. I love my iPhone and all of my apple products but really MDN your two sense this last year has been way negative against anyone who speaks about apple without positive remarks. It is kind of getting old and bad reporting on your end.
@ macaholic
Add to that the lack of 3rd party multitasking and a walled app garden plus a new OS with no developers.
Microsoft fanboys have to wait 8 more months or so for Microsoft to deliver a phone OS that is three and a half years late with all the shortcomings that Windows Wankers railed against concerning the iPhone 1.0.
Bitter, bitter irony. The sadness leaking out of Gizmodo and other sites who went initially ballistic over Microsoft’s faked new phone OS demos is schadenfreude at it’s finest.
I perceive a certain irony: So many Windows features appear to be copied and pasted.
@iPhoneEnvy/R2
I guess you missed the other announcement, there will be no multitasking either.
http://gizmodo.com/5493569/windows-phone-7-apps-everything-you-need-to-know
Cheers!
@Hey there, aka unregistered coward:
MDN is not a ‘reporter’. It is an aggregator, and the actual name makes it pretty clear where they stand. Also the issue is not trashing MS for no copy paste (well maybe a little, since it has been shown to be possible, and for some time now, actually). The issue is the MS fanboys who trashed the iPhone for the initial lack of the feature, ie: no copy/paste no sale comments). These same folks will be quick to assert that it is not that important after all, since MS does not provide that function in their phone OS. That is true lemming like behaviour. Or is it more like the tale of the Fox and the Grapes?
so don’t trash microsoft for not having it in their first version.
Oh no, trashing is warranted and righteous in it’s vitriol. The iPhone is Apple’s first ever phone. They had no history of phone fabrication or a phone GUI. Microsoft’s attendant lackeys beat Apple merciless over functionality taken for granted in WinMobile and had nothing but praise for Microsoft’s half assed efforts in mobile. Microsoft has been making a mobile OS for more than 13 years, 10 *years* longer than Apple.
This is in no way, shape or form Microsoft’s first, second or even third iteration of a mobile OS. It’s simply disingenuous to claim otherwise. It points to MS fanboys misplaced faith, MS’s incompetence and/or the true nature of building a useful mobile OS. Those nerds who believed Microsoft was going to leapfrog Apple easily and in a timely fashion deserve to have their noses rubbed in the inadequacies of Windows Mobile Phone 7 (who in *gods* names names MS software?) at every opportunity.
Microsoft remains on the cutting of edge of where their competitors were five years ago.
I must say M$ is truly an amazing company. How is it possible that any reasonably sane person, persons, large group, huge corporation — you get the idea — can make so many huge mistakes in a product launch, almost a YEAR before it launches. Sheesh those people in Redmond must have a screw loose!! Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
All M$ had to do was follow (which they try to do their very best, but still fail) what Apple has done with the iPhone and they would have had a decent chance at putting out a phone that someone would buy (I don’t know who would buy it, but I am sure someone would — not M$ employees since it seems thousand of them have iPhones, too funny but I digress…)
M$ has yet again managed to create another disaster of a product 9+ months before it even ships. Now that’s amazing.
@ Hey there:
MDN, while often hypocritical, is correct in this case. Microsoft has the benefit of seeing how Apple was slammed for not having cut and paste for too long in the iPhone, but yet Microsoft, with an additional 8 months before releasing Windows Phone 7, has already decided not to include cut and paste. And that’s if WP7 actually ships in January 2011. Good luck meeting that deadline, MS. There’s no excuse for MS excluding cut and paste in some form when the consumer demand for it has been very apparent.
Microsoft continues to copy Apple,
but they are no longer able to paste.
Microsoft is struggling to “innovate” to the level of iPhone OS 2.0. Apple is already close to 4.0. It’s like an Olympic sprinter racing a turtle.
This is pretty funny.
Are there any Windows Fanboys left?
This forum, and others, used to be full of Windows trolls. I haven’t noticed any of late – indeed since the Vista debacle Windows users have been remarkably quiet. Perhaps they have mostly, quietly, seen the light and joined the queues at the Apple store…
When was the last time microsh*t did anything that made you think, hey this is cool? Answer: *shrug* Even all the OSX stuff they pillaged for windoze 7 and use as ‘selling points’ in those inane and stupid I am a PC ads seems passe, since we’ve had the same features done properly for years. Microsh*t is becoming increasingly tired, lazy and, with that, irrelevant outside of enterprise. It should stick to its core business: bilking enterprises with its incessant ‘tax’ and try to get that right (good luck). When it can get that right (right about the time the PC is finally dead), maybe then it should try to branch out into things other than the endless failures these currently forays seem inevitably to deliver. For microsh*t, its time to die…
This is a bad case of the pot calling the kettle black.
The iPhone can Cut/Copy/Paste but Snow Leopard cannot.
Why not??
Winblows switchers just cannot believe that a modern OS cannot do something so basic.
WTF are u talking about? “Nobama” aka unregistered coward
Paul Thurrot is practically ejaculating over Windows phone 7 every time he writes about it. All its limitations that he criticised the iPhone for, suddenly don’t seem to matter
http://www.winsupersite.com/mobile/wp7_love.asp
I don’t register anywhere.
At least I can spell.
Will Ballmer come out and condemn WP7S for not having a “real” keyboard?
@Rhys Eunson
Wow that’s hilarious. What a true SHILL!!! Pathetic!!