Windows Phone 7 would not have copy paste

Windows Phone 7 would not have copy paste

Microsoft is following Apple a bit too closely with their Windows Phone 7 series mobile platform.

The company has revealed that it would not include copy-paste functionality.

Instead, it would rely on a single tap action.

A company representative said: “Windows Phone 7 Series will not initially offer copy-and-paste; instead, we try to solve the most common uses for copy-and-paste via single-tap action. For example, people often want to take an address and view it on a map, highlight a term in the browser, and do a search or copy a phone number to make a call. Instead of the user manually doing a copy and paste in these scenarios, we recognize those situations automatically and make them happen with just one touch. In our early testing, people have been pleased with this approach, but we’re always listening to feedback and will continue to improve our feature set over time based on what we hear.”

Apple iPhone did not include copy-and-paste feature in its first version. Apple added it much later. It comes handy for tasks where you have to copy content from one application to another one.

Looks like Microsoft would realize that users want/need it at a later stage.

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