Microsoft drops copy and paste functionality for Windows Phone 7 Series

HardwareLust · 1 year

Brix insists that most users won't miss copy and paste and said that it was a matter of focus

Brix is a fucking idiot. I guarantee that they will regret or reverse this decision. I was interested in WinMo 7, but without copy/paste I'm not any longer. I use copy/paste on my WinMo 6.1 phone all the fucking time.

Oh, well. Guess it's time for Android or the iPhone.

If this feels like deja vu, a similar limitation hampered the initial iPhone, with Apple later going back and adding the feature.

You'd think that MS would have learned something from this.

filterspam · 1 year

They have already "anticipated" what you want to do so obviously you really don't want to copy and paste even if you think that you do.

head-up-ass-firmly

newbill123 · 1 year

So if I had to guess a reason, it'd be patents.

[Edit: why? because they're taking interface elements (like scroll bars) away. How do you tell whether the user is trying to highlight text or trying to navigate the interface? You can't. Highlighting is now a modal operation rather than a contextual one. So how do you switch into and out of that mode? There are lots of patents to answer that question.]

Others have patented their implementations copy/paste in a touch screen interface. Some are great. Some suck horribly. But Microsoft has to license one or come up with their own.

Remember when the iPhone didn't have copy/paste and everyone was coming up with half baked ideas about implementing it? Use a twisty motion to call up a highlighter which will copy whatever is highlighted to a system wide scrapbook. Use a different twisty motion to call back the scrapbook later to pick out what to paste. Apple ignored these ideas and took a long time to come up with something they liked and no doubt have patented.

No doubt Microsoft is doing the same right now.

seizer001 · 1 year

This is a deal breaker and ensures that I will not be purchasing a MS 7 series phone.

bradsh · 1 year

Someone needs to take away their laptops for a few days and force them to do everything on their phones. THEN write the OS.

yasth · 1 year

Windows CE 1.0 (released 14 years ago!) had copy and paste for god sakes.

Do these people ever use their own devices?

logicalnoise · 1 year

pompous morons. my significant interest in a windows 7 phone has completely disappeared. I copy and paste all the time in android usually just a paragraph that I want to forward to my work computer or vice versa. Just a completely moronic turn on what was a possible comeback of a good brand.

coppersink · 1 year

Wow - it's not like Microsoft to completely misjudge customer expectations, is it?

erdie721 · 1 year

Just when you thought they got their head out of their ass...

ravage214 · 1 year

Copy paste are you serious, thats like your bread and butter, how can you get rid of copy paste? keepin my droid.

redd17 · 1 year

I upvoted this for the LOST reference in the article photo. "Oceanic 815"

derekaw · 1 year

A modern smartphone OS needs copy and paste. This is quite unbelievable. "It's actually an intentional design decision," he said. "We try to anticipate what the user wants so copy and paste isn't necessary."

skydivingdutch · 1 year

It also won't support multi-tasking.

phreakymonkey · 1 year

Jesus. I get pissed that I can't copy text on Facebook for iPhone or copy segments of text messages instead of the whole thing. How does this make sense to anyone?

noiserr · 1 year

Can't say I am surprised. Another amateur move from an amateur company.

wooptoo · 1 year

Cutting down on core features for a perceived usability improvement. Idiocracy, here we come.

simpleblob · 1 year

Is it possible that they might have a better system in place of the ol' ctrl+c ctrl+v paradigm?

I'm playing devil's advocate here.

vermicin · 1 year

copy-paste on my iphone has been useless. it links phone numbers and addresses and email addresses much like microsoft is trying to do. I just don't have a use for it.

that said, the iphone has it now. and windows mobile has always had it. way to piss off the legions of people who went absolutely fucking apeshit that the iphone had no copy-paste when "my 5 year old winmo phone has it omg?!?!" They just look stupid. They always have, but you're really putting a fine point on it.

Master_Rux · 1 year

wow a reddit headline that was more accurate than the article headline. upvote for you.

thephotoman · 1 year

I'm a developer. I need copy/paste so that I can edit configuration files on my desktop, then move them into the emulator from my simulated memory card.

dkraft · 1 year

Do Not Question My Authaorataaaaayyyyyy.

radix89 · 1 year

Double clicking on phone numbers sounds ok. But yeah, I copy/paste TEXT all the time on my current windows phone. Why do people get so stupid? So much for my windows 7 upgrade. I am irrationally angry about this. PMS ftw.

mch · 1 year

"It's actually an intentional design decision," he said. "We try to anticipate what the user wants so copy and paste isn't necessary."

YOU DON'T KNOW ME MICROSOFT!

DMeter · 1 year

I used to use Windows Mobile. I'm starting to develop commercially for Android now. This is great news as far as I'm concerned. I'm hoping they lock the platform down too and shut out hobbiest developers like Apple was nice enough to do. With all the support I've been getting from the "competition" my business is bound to take off. They also need a black box approval process. Maybe if I ask nicely they'll fit the devices with black and white screens. PS Blackberry - About your shitty interface/OS and complete lack of an app market. Thanks. I'm definitely sending you guys a Christmas card.

johnnyneverdies · 1 year

MICROSOFT IS SO GODDAMN FUCKING RETARDED!!!!!!!!!!1

Poltras · 1 year

Let's see the Anti-Apple crowd spin on this one.

Personally, it never was a feature I use that much on the iPhone. If they can polish other areas of the OS fine with me. But I think they're putting themselves to a big disadvantage since the number one asked feature (after native apps) of the iPhone OS <3.0 was Copy&Paste.

sherlok · 1 year

All the hub-bub about copy-paste being in android I think I may have used it once. It just seems.....cumbersome to me. And there's usually very little I seem to actually want to copy/paste on my phone.

Maybe the majority of people don't touch copy/paste - just like a huge group of people don't seem to care about multitasking (most iphone users). Should be interesting to see how they cover it up with prediction.

Just mixing up the viewpoints, since every thread in here is extremely angry.

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes everyone. Obviously my opinion/use case is wrong and won't be expressed on the internet again.

one2gamble · 1 year

pretty much this thing isnt at all appealing to their current user base with all these pointless concessions being made.

That said, it should appeal to the iphone user base who doesnt really do anything with their phone

tallwookie · 1 year

why? did it BSoD or get stuck in a boot loop?

M0b1u5 · 1 year

Repeat after me:

Windows sucks.
Apple blows.
Android is the way to go!

you'll need to login or register to do that

create a new account

login