Comments on: OpenClip, she is dead

By: Alper

Alper — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:25:10 +0000

It’s there in the obvious places where I would use cut and paste to share a link with a friend i.e. in Safari and in YouTube. Which tasks would you like to accomplish which are currently impossible?

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:12:29 +0000

All it takes, right now, is for one update to break the concept. I read another comment – why not a web-based cut and paste? It’s not pretty, but it should work, right?

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:40:24 +0000

Isn’t it obvious, drinking huge quantities of beer while wearing revealing Lederhosen.

By: Jack Repenning

Jack Repenning — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:26:24 +0000

“A good job of building a usable interface, even though it lacks copy/paste,” I’ll buy. But I do not in fact find “send-to-friend functionality where I would want it to be,” or at least not in all the places I want it to be.

By: Sam Sethi

Sam Sethi — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:59:17 +0000

Hi John

Sorry Openclip is not dead, please read the blog news on openclip again. Thus far firmware 2.1 will prevent interapplication cut and paste but as it has not been released Apple have the chance to change their minds. Lets hope they do! If not applications like MagicPad can still do C&P inside their own app.

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:15:29 +0000

what, then, are germans “gay for,” if i may ask?

By: Adolf Wilhelm

Adolf Wilhelm — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:34:11 +0000

Mr. Biggs, Sir, what is it about “Herr” Gruber?

He may have German ancestors, but he can’t be born German. Germans are not “Gay for the iPhone” like John ‘Daring Fireball’ Gruber is.

By: Alper

Alper — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:44:52 +0000

I must say I think they have done a good job of building a usable interface without copy and paste with convenient send-to-friend functionality where you would want it to be. I would like copy-paste functionality to be able to do more substantial work on my iPhone but I can imagine the UI tradeoffs it would involve and for now I’m fine without it.

However there’s still a shared space available for applications to store their clipboard: the web. Seeing as all iPhones come with unlimited data plans and most copied content is hundred bytes max, this could be a viable (if not hackish) workaround.

By: gi joe

gi joe — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:28:29 +0000

Clippy! +5 for digging up a graphic of my old nemesis simply because the article references the word “clip”….your mind never ceases to frighten me….

By: Home Biss

Home Biss — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:33:18 +0000

Too bad…

Apple has to do something now. They should provide Copy & Paste functionality very soon since a lot of people are crying about it.