A recent interview with Apple’s VP or Worldwide iPod and iPhone Product Marketing Greg Joswiak cleared up a few lingering questions about the iPhone 3G. First, the lack of cut-and-paste functionality is simply due to the fact that it wasn’t very high on their list of features to get into the phone. Hopefully this means we’ll see this implemented via a software update someday.
Some good news for those wanting to take full advantage of their iPhone’s GPS. Apparently the phone’s GPS antenna is capable of performing turn-by-turn navigation, however, there are some “complicated issues” surrounding it. He added that “it will evolve, I think our developers will amaze us.” I definitely can’t wait to be amazed by their developers on this front.
Finally, he also commented on issues faced by office suite applications. Apparently each app has its own file space, and “there’s no cross-application file structure.”
[via iLounge]
What stood out for me on the question of cut/paste was that he said it wasn’t high on the list of features. That answer seems to be lingering from the original iPhone. It’s simple – is cut/paste programming ready to be implemented in the next iPhone firmware update? This feature has been high on the list of PDA users since the original iPhone, along with flash support, mms, voice dialing, etc. Apple is aware of what their customers want, the real question is why haven’t they chosen to implement it?
There is an online petition at http://www.iphonefeatures.org to get features such as ‘cut and paste’ included in the next software release.