iPhone It has come a long way since it was first introduced 15 years ago. One of the most sought after flagship smartphones in the world, it has cemented Apple’s position as a technology giant along with other products from the company. But do you know that earlier iPhone did not have copy-paste feature. the former Apple Software engineer and designer Ken Cocinda has something to share about why the Cupertino-based tech giant didn’t include that feature in the device, as per a report by 9To5Mac. Kocienda joined Apple in 2001, and was one of the lead engineers working on the iPhone project.
According to him, until the first iPhone was launched, the development team was not able to prepare this feature. They were really busy working on the iPhone’s virtual keyboard and its autocorrect system. After the first iPhone was launched, Kocienda and his team decided to start working on copy and paste option, but it still took some time for the feature to be really ready for the users.
The engineers explain that they came up with the idea of a “magnifying text loupe” to let users know exactly where they were pointing the text cursor, which was key to copy and paste. Even with the magnifying glass, the cursor ceased to move between characters after the user lifted his finger off the screen due to natural flicker,” the report said.
A “Touch History Log” had to be developed that helped to place the cursor where the user actually wanted it. How it worked was that when users removed their finger from the screen, the system was able to detect the position of the finger “milliseconds since the last touch”, allowing the cursor to remain in that location.
The copy and paste feature was finally introduced in 2009 via iPhone OS 3.0, and was preinstalled by default on the iPhone 3GS.
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