Some independent developers have come out with a workaround for implementing cut & paste on the iPhone. This isn’t some sort of Apple led – development, so it is a little sketchy and doesn’t work across all apps on the phone. It’s called OpenClip, and is an open source framework that can be implemented by different app makers to allow cut and paste.
Pretty neat huh? Well, thing is, the framework will no longer work in Firmware 2.1 when that comes out. (Thanks Gizmodo) This is because the framework is based on a loophole that allows applications to reach from each other’s documents folder. I’m guessing Apple has closed this for security reasons. To actually get a more technical look at how the framework works, head on over to Daring Fireball.
While that’s a bummer, hopefully it will prompt Apple to do something about the whole issue, and implement it themselves. It really can’t be that difficult, given that some independent developers with way fewer resources has been able to pull it off.
