In an earlier post, Ten things I hope the new iPhone SDK will help my iPhone do, I identified several items I was hoping that the iPhone SDK would either resolve or address. I can say with confidence, that Apple will address one of the items from my list.
The one item that Apple positively addressed was the Typeahead Search for Dialing option. Now, a user will be able to type to search through a list of contacts instead being required to "flick" through the list.
The other items on my list may be a bit more specialized and, therefore, not addressed. But the two which stand out most in my mind as items which might be slipped into the next release of the iPhone OS are Copy and Paste and Lock.
It is possible that the Copy and Paste functionality will be included in the new software for the iPhone and just not be publicized. To announce it would be an admission that the phone was lacking a vital component.
We have seen Steve Jobs gloss over new/missing features in a product before, specifically with the Apple mouse. A computer only needs one mouse, right? Well, when the Apple Mighty Mouse was introduced, there was still only one button. However, you could change a preference setting and take advantage of several conveniently placed sensors to make your Mighty Mouse mimic two-button mouse behavior from -- get this -- a mouse with only one button.
Until the iPhone update comes out July 11th, I will hold out hope that I will be able to copy and paste. And, who knows, maybe a few of the other things I hoped for will show up too.
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I thought you could control+click, and that would be like the right click. Was this innovation after the new and improved mouse?
Control+Click is like a right click. On the Mac Laptops you can set up a two-finger trackpad click. Or, you could just plug in a standard two-button mouse to gain right-click ability to expose the context menu.
In the case of the mighty mouse, it looks like a one-button mouse, but it has several sensors inside and can act like a two-button mouse.
The philosophy at Apple was something like, "two buttons makes clicking too complicated." Though, many took the invention of the mighty mouse as a reluctant admission that two buttons are actually pretty convenient.
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