Hypocrite Thurrott on Copy and Paste

Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010   1 note   Comments
Paul Thurrott you blazing hypocrite!
Apple not including a “basic OS feature” is bad and “unbelievable”, but when Microsoft omits this feature from one of their products it’s fine, nothing to be mentioned?

The only reason I can think of, why Microsoft hasn’t implemented cut/copy and paste into Windows 7 Phone Edition, is that they haven’t found a way to do it without obviously copying Apple’s or Google’s solution.


Here are some of the passages I’m talking about, from Daring Fireball:

Paul Thurrott’s Curiously Shifting Thoughts on Copy-and-Paste
Delightful catch by Chris Grande. Here’s Paul Thurrott in July 2007, regarding the iPhone:

And what’s up with the lack of cut/copy and paste? This is a basic OS feature that Apple included in the first Mac OS almost 25 years ago. It’s inexplicably missing from the iPhone, unavailable in any application or the wider system itself. Unreal.

And here’s Paul Thurrott two days ago, in a post titled “I Love Windows Phone”:

The multitasking is limited. Users will only be able to get apps from the Marketplace, and not from third parties. Gasp! Is it true that there’s no copy and paste?

No matter. Windows Phone combines those very few things that were right about Windows Mobile — primarily some business functionality — with a much wider set of new functionality that is exciting in both scope and possibility.

Unreal, indeed.
blog comments powered by Disqus

We love Tumblr. Theme (Innovate) by Thijs