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Ready for another long, drawn-out copy and paste controversy to overtake your every waking moment for a year or two? Good: Microsoft just mentioned in a Q&A session here at MIX10 in no uncertain terms that clipboard operations won’t be supported on Windows Phone 7 Series… so that’s that.
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I think I’ve copy/pasted twice on my iTouch since I upgraded the OS to 3.x. BFD.
I guess it’s pretty personal then – I use it daily.
But it isn’t the copy/paste that is interesting here – it’s that Phone 7 is following the exact same path as the iPhone, down to particulars like copy/paste. This way you can predict that Phone 7 will be where iPhone 3.0 is around 2012 or so.
Truly amazing to see the attempts made to hype Phone 7 were seemingly succesfull, for a while at least. This is of course taking into consideration that earlier versions of Windows Mobile were/are so user-unfriendly, that anything remotely different can be considered a huge improvement. Anyway, I see a lot of people eagerly awaiting Phone 7.
Now slowly the hype is being strangled to death, by putting out news of what Phone 7 will NOT do, or what MS will NOT let you do with it. First came the news of lack of multi-tasking, then the closed marketspace and probability old Windows Mobile apps will not run on Phone 7, and now the lack of copy-paste. It almost seems as though MS does not understand how to warm people up to their new products, and simply copies what Apple makes, or worse – tries to copy their path of product development. Then you know you’ll be years behind, always. But worst of all, we’ll know that Phone 7 (and 8, 9 etc) will not really innovate.
Jim, if you’ve seen any visuals of the Phone 7 UI, can you say that they’re not innovating?
I’ll only feel reassured when I know that Phone7 is available in brown.
Ah, the interface. I was actually talking about what the device can do – or rather what the user can do with the device. Regardless, the same goes for the UI in my opinion. I have seen photo’s and flash animations of the Phone 7 UI. It’s different from WM6, true. But having also seen and used HTC’s fingerfriendly TouchFlo/Sense interface, SPB’s graphically impressive Mobile Shell, the simple and efficient iPhone, Nokia’s intuitive menu layout and, well, the list goes on, I would say it’s combining features that have worked for others, but not reinventing the Windows Mobile OS or the smartphone.
(Actually, it looks a bit like a sliding game, where you have to slide all the pieces in the right position).