Copy & Paste Coming To iPhone

In true Tiny form, I've had an iPhone for 48 hours and have already fallen in love with it three times, hated it twice, made out with it for a while, and begged it for the one feature that, in my brief but torrid iPhone experience, would really make my day: copy and paste.

Thanks to developer Proximi, a new app called MagicPad will be bringing that functionality to the device that has so belatedly rocked my world. Not terribly different than the iPhone's native notes app, MagicPad adds support for multiple fonts and font enrichments such as italics and underlining... and of course, copy and paste.

As you can tell from the picture, MagicPad adds a small but prominent toolbar to the iPhone's virtual keyboard that appends the new features, which are unfortunately only available within MagicPad itself - you still won't be able to copy and paste between apps, which of course is the holy grail.

MagicPad has yet to be approved, so of course it could all go up in vapor. But hopefully one way or another Apple will ever-so-gently relax their human interface guidelines to include this essential functionality.

Developer nails copy/paste with upcoming iPhone app [Crave]