As slick of a device that the iPhone was and its lead on user-friendliness compared to other smartphones, the one poke at Apple's effort was the sore lack of copy & paste functionality.
Copy and pasting was a common function of nearly all other smartphones (and even some dumb ones), that it seemed very backwards of the iPhone to not have it until the feature arrived in the iPhone OS 3.0 update.
It's strange, then, to learn that Microsoft's upcoming big smartphone OS will be committing the same omission. At a Q&A session at MIX10, Microsoft said that clipboard operations won't be supported in Windows Phone 7.
Engadget confirmed again with Microsoft and reported: "Windows Phone 7 Series will not have copy and paste functionality. There is a data-detection service built into the text-handling API that will recognize phone numbers and addresses, but Microsoft says most users, including Office users, don't really need clipboard functionality."
We're still scratching our heads at Microsoft's decision to leave copy & paste out of Windows Phone 7.
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