Ring-fenced copy and paste coming to iPhone

Is there be any more demanded an iPhone feature than the simple, honest-to-goodness ability to copy and paste? We suspect not.

So, is Apple going to get around to sorting it out any time soon? Alas, we again suspect not. While the iPhone world waits for an OS-level copy and paste function, an outfit called Proximi is parading the same trick in its upcoming application, MagicPad.

Don’t get too excited here because, as you’re probably aware, applications running on the iPhone are sandboxed – meaning a feature in one cannot be used in another. So, yes, MagicPad is a notepad application with a copy and paste feature. But that copy-and-paste feature can be used only in MagicPad. And while the developer tries hard in this demo video to convince viewers that MagicPad will be great, it really looks like just another notepad application. With a copy and paste function. More after the cut.

Of course, brave iPhone 1.0 users – ie, those prepared to jailbreak their handsets in order to install third-party apps, in the days before the App Store made such a thing legit – could get a useful copy and paste tool that worked across applications. But we’re not sure iCopy works on iPhone 2.0, even if you are brave enough to go down the jailbreak route this time around.

[ MagicPad]