The most controversial omission of the iPhone’s feature set is its bizarre lack of copy and paste. While anyone who has spent a cursory amount of time trying to figure out the interaction design for multitouch copy and paste using Apple’s guidelines will discover that it’s a little bit harder than it seems.
Even so, it shouldn’t be out of Apple’s depth — they’re kind of the best in the world for interface design. Which is why it should come as no surprise that Apple had touchscreen copy and paste figured out on the Newton 15 years ago, as shown in option8’s video above.
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Written by Pete Mortensen | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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Image from Daily Mail For years, Apple (and just about every other digital media company in the world) has battled with Burst.com, a Santa Rosa, California company that holds a huge number of broad patents for streaming audio and video over networks. Microsoft settled with Burst three years ago, as have many other players. Apple maintained for years that those patents are too generic to be enforceable, and was especially upset at the notion that anything about the iPod was derived from Burst’s circa 1990 patents.And after years, the company has proof: a 52-year-old Brit named Kane Kramer who developed a prototype digital music player called IXI in 1979 that could hold up to three-and-a-half minutes of music (no word on whether he advertised it as putting “One song in your pocket). While his invention never made a direct market impact (and his patents expired in the late 1980s), Kramer’s IXI provides clear evidence that the basic concept behind the iPod existed long before Burst ever thought it was a good idea to make money through patent enforcement.In spite of Apple’s use of Kramer as a witness in its case with Burst, he quite naturally hasn’t been granted a share of its revenues. In fact, he recently had to sell his house and move into a rental. Still, his original sketch isn’t that far off the mark. Kind of hard to believe.
‘I must admit that at first I thought it was a wind-up by friends. But we spoke for some time, with me still up this ladder slightly bewildered by it all, and she said Apple would like me to come to California to talk to them. ’Then I had to make a deposition in front of a court stenographer and videographer at a lawyers’ office. The questioning by the Burst legal counsel there was tough, ten hours of it. But I was happy to do it.’
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Written by Pete Mortensen | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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Arnold Kim, Jeff Gamet, and Adam Christianson join me to discuss the upcoming Apple event, iTunes 8, the new iPod touch, and much more! Show notes can be found at iPhoneAlley.com/podcast. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, email us at Podcast[at]iPhoneAlley.com.
Written by Michael Johnston | Source: http://www.iphonealley.com/sitewide?
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This week’s entry in the ‘Greatest Mac Moment’ caused a bit of debate in our sacred halls. The contrarians questioned how a piece of software that wasn’t even originally written by Apple could possibly be a in the top 25 of Mac moments ever.
Browse the opinions of our staff, and let us know you own!
Leigh McMullen: I don’t disagree that iTunes is important enough to be one of the ‘Greatest Mac Moments’, I just disagree with its position on the list. If anything it needs to be MUCH MUCH Higher. iTunes ought to be in the top 5, and here’s why:
It’s a little celebrated fact that iTunes is the most popular piece of software for Microsoft Windows. It is very likely that there are more legitimately licensed copies of iTunes out there than Windows Vista! With its popularity, iTunes is the official ambassador of the “Mac Experience” to forlorn Windows users everywhere. It is in this capacity, that iTunes is second only to the switch to Intel processors in driving people to switch to Macintosh. Anything that is responsible for that degree of proliferation of our beloved platform has got to be more important that #21 on our list!
Written by Leigh McMullen | Source: http://cultofmac.com
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Ars Technica says they have word from the inside that Apple is expecting to launch iPhone Software version 2.1 on September 9th. Particularly interesting about the rumor is the claim that in addition to what is already known about 2.1, Apple withheld certain parts of the new OS from the developer seed in order to keep them a secret. On one hand, the news is exciting in that they may be hiding some cool new feature. On the other, they could also be something bad. We'll have to wait until Tuesday to find out.
Written by Edward Kirk | Source: http://www.iphonealley.com/sitewide?
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