Just one of the reasons I want one. - Robert Scoble from email

Amen to that. - Nicholas Kreidberg

Awesome...amazing we all think it's so great yet it should be a fundamental feature in every smartphone. - Jonathan Brown

does it feel good in the hand? - Jay

<whisper> My G1 has been doing this since I first turned it on </whisper> - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Maybe this will finally get Apple to raise the priority on this feature ... - Patrick Jordan

I strongly suspect next iPhone release will have it. But my phone has it now, so I got that going for me, which is nice. - Wade Dorrell

After watching someone from work try 3 times to enter our 64-char-long wifi passwd on an iPhone, lack of copy/paste seems like a security hole, since it encourages you to use short passwds. - Richard pancakhaus Walker

@Richard haha.. you are so damn right about that statement :P - Qbat

Well, just like in my iPhone... oh wait. - Sebastian

I really love my iPhone. While I'm not above switching to something superior, I would be satisfied if they just up the ante for Apple as suggested by @Patrick and compel them to deliver some much-needed functionality. I would like it to be a bit more open too. - Devon Campbell

Apple needs to get copy/paste on the iPhone - Kevin Whalen

As badly as copy&paste, iPhone needs better, slicker ways to switch between apps and organize and work with home screens - hopefully Palm may sort of embarass Apple into some greater efforts ... - Patrick Jordan

It's going to be interesting to see if apple has a better solution up their sleeves. Or perhaps it will just melt away with inter-app integration such as URLs and data detectors. - Robin Barooah

hahahahha - Mona Nomura

DO EET ALREADY, APPLE - Live4Emma (L4S)

Woot! Palm! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Way to go Palm! Competition raise all boats. - Clarence Chiang

I won't believe it until I see that its better then my old palm pilot. - Colide81 (James)

Isn't that lovely..? :) - Daynah

Apple: I don't care if you have to PR spin this and make it look like you just added the most innovative feature ever on the iPhone, JUST ADD IT. - Brad Butner

Great product IF ONLY it is priced right and works with my Mac. - Rom Feria

heard anything on pricing? - Yolanda

Quick question on the iPhone... So they update it tomorrow with Cut & Paste... What do we complain about then? - Johnny Worthington

Inability to multi-task, push, and its stupid stupid cables! - Mona Nomura

@Johnny - lack of video recording, nothing in the way of organizing our ever-growing numbers of apps and our home screens, lack of some sort of launcher app ... - Patrick Jordan

oooh cut & paste! what about a legit Qik app or the MMS function? - Courtney Engle

Cool... I would like to be able to drag and rearrange my home screen icons via my computer - Johnny Worthington

There is no need for MMS - I can email. Qik, I am waiting for. And truth be told, lack of copy and paste doesn't bug me. I just want PUSH. - Mona Nomura

the need for MMS is more about friends sending me messages and having to log in to at&t website to see them. more on the receiving than the submitting end - Courtney Engle

@Johnny - yeah, something like that, or that plus better way to do things on the iPhone in this area too - wiggly icons were cute when we first saw them, but with 5,6,7 etc. screens of apps, they suck - you get one fave onto a page you want and the knock-on effect is clumsy / knocks others off were you want them ... - Patrick Jordan

Do you really think people will ditch the Iphone and change carriers for this thing? - David

That keyboard sure seems tiny. But not really compared to the portrait mode iPhone keyboard. - Ari Braginsky

Palm is turning japanese, finally. - Greg

Excellent. Copy and paste just like Windows Mobile has been doing for longer than the iPhone existence, and I think that includes secret existence. I wonder if copy/paste was even possible in 2000 on the first widely available Palm-based phone, the Kyocera QCP6035. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

What does that mean, Greg? - Mona Nomura

So people want copy/paste more than native apps? - Bwana ☠

No way, Bwana; I want EVERYTHING more than a few things! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Dare to effing dream....Has Apple ever given a reason that makes sense about why cut/paste is not available on the iPhone? Is this like the second mouse button, where it take 10 years to convince them it's a mission-critical feature? - Matthew DeVries

I don't need MMS, but I do need the ability to receive MMS. What happens when my business contacts MMS me something on an iPhone? My plan is up in february and I need to decide soon between G1 and iPhone. - Matthew DeVries

Personally, I've never used copy/paste on a mobile device. - Bwana ☠

I don't need copy and paste because the iPhone enables me to do everything I needed copy and paste for. (used it a lot on the Curve). MMS? Who needs that when most people have email... :( - Mona Nomura

where's the app market / store - Bob Sonin

Mona: Email is find for sending, but it's a given that everyone expects you to be able to receive MMS. As long as either 1.) the MMS sender is told that I can't get that type of message, or 2.) the MMS gets emailed to me when they use my PHONE number, fine I'll live without it. If you have a job where MMS's are flying around all day, you can't go to your bosses and coworkers and tell them that they can MMS everyone else in the company, but me, they gotta log on and email. - Matthew DeVries

Bwana: I never used a cup holder in a car either before my parents got a 1986 Colt Vista o.O - Matthew DeVries

So is a cup holder "mission critical"? - Bwana ☠

I wouldn't buy a car without one. Unless I it was a Mint 66 Mustang, but no one's allowed to drink in that. - Matthew DeVries

I'm buying stock...Don't tell Alex though, or he'll whine about it. - Geoff Schultz

Ok Matthew....you win.... cup holders don't mean a thing to me. - Bwana ☠

Wow, MMS is used for business? I had no idea, since I've always been in email environments. Now I see where you are coming from. Thank you for taking the time to explain. :) - Mona Nomura

Bwana: I don't think you can win the internet ;) , and I wasn't taking the piss out of you. It's just a feature I find important, There's a bunch of things I'm like that on. Got a touch of OCD. Oh, and your Patrick Norton impressions rock. - Matthew DeVries

Mona: Sorry if I came of overly aggressive there. I'm still stuck in kind of a Web 1.0 vein where everything erupts into a flame war and it's a sprint to get your point across before the thread turns to spam, porn, hitler, or gets deleted. - Matthew DeVries

If the multi-tasking works, I think this thing will be a giant step in the right direction. It's a pain point on smart phones. Just about all of them stink with multi-tasking. Matthew, I don't even try to impersonate him, it's just my normal voice :) - Bwana ☠

hahahhahah no worries! FriendFeed is one of the few places different ideas are exchanged amicably, and this is definitely not the place where threads turn to spam, porn, hitler, or into the Dark Space. Though a picture of spam+porn+Hitler+bacon combination is known to show up... in LOL cat form. ;) - Mona Nomura

Do you really think this could finally deserve the name, I PHONE Killer? - RALPH

Competition - perhaps. Killer? No. (at this time) - Mona Nomura

I guess it's more accurate to say you impersonate his cadence from time to time. - Matthew DeVries

Does the iPhone need killing? I prefer iPhone challenger. If the iPhone is dead, then there's no need for the killer to innovate, and I'm never going to get my damn flying car. - Matthew DeVries

With that type of logic, one cannot disagree. One can say further Matthew that inspiration for the PRE came from Apple in the first place. - RALPH

I agree Mon N... let me change the terminology.. Lets talk about it finally that we have competition. - RALPH

Haven't we established that labeling anything an X-killer is destined to actually kill the thing that is labeled? Think of the halls of recent tech history strewn with the corpses of so-called "iPod-killers" - Victor Ganata

I *love* copy-paste in my Sony Ericsson W830i - Toni @ NavinoT

I've got copy/paste on my nokia 6130. woohoo! - Jason Shultz from twhirl

I for one applaud Apple for showing strong character and not adding this obvious, relatively easy-to-implement, immensely useful feature despite popular demand by loyal fans. - Yaniv Golan

@Yaniv it's for your own good. You really didn't need it, otherwise it would have been there from the begining. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

on SE P1i too and a list of most used term - Raphaelo Casanova from twhirl

You've been able to do this on Nokia's for years. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

can you drag highlight? That's something I really wish the iphone had. - alphaxion

Scoble, every smart phone has had copy and paste EXCEPT for iPhone. - David Andrzejewski