Cut and paste on the BlackBerry Storm
Posted by marshall Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:37:00 GMT
From Macworld's review of the BlackBerry Storm 9500:
And while we're on the subject of welcome features that users are clamoring for, let's not overlook (cue fanfare) cut-and-paste. BlackBerry has shown Apple how it's done, by using the same multi-touch technology used in the iPhone 3G. Here's how it works: you put one finger at the start of what you want to copy, and one finger at the end to highlight text; then press the Menu button to select 'cut' or 'copy'...RIM's solution doesn't work well enough for us because it is fiddly beyond belief ("using this would drive you mad," said one of our testers).
I can't tell if the phrase, "BlackBerry has shown Apple how it's done", is sarcasm or not. It seems to be written in complete seriousness, yet I can't see how it could be. It is this kind of thing that demonstrates precisely why Apple has not yet implemented copy and paste in the iPhone. It's not that they don't know what it is, or don't recognize the need for it. It's that, if they're going to implement it, they need a good implementation to begin with, and they haven't got one worked out yet. All the BlackBerry has done is provide a reference implementation of how not to do it...and there are plenty of those already.
