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Copy & Paste references spotted in existing iPhone frameworks

One developer burning the midnight oil has stumbled upon references to copy and paste in the frameworks of Apple's first beta of iPhone Software 2.1, potentially offering new hope for one of the most requested and conspicuously absent features of the company's mobile software.

The findings, contained within the English-language 'Localizable.strings' file located in 'System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/WebKit.framework' are also accompanied by references to the Spotlight search, text-to-speech, file uploads, and the Finder.

Therefore, it's unclear whether those references represent the groundwork for upcoming iPhone features or simply exists as carryovers from the WebKit frameworks used to develop applications for the Mac and Windows PCs.

Other findings by the same developer include preferences to an Apple MobileRadio application, which has also yet to surface.

When asked earlier this month about the absence of copy and paste functionality in the iPhone software, Apple vice president of product marketing Greg Woswiak said the feature was not a priority and that engineers simply hadn't gotten around to it yet.

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57 Comments

johnny mozzarella 19 Years · 1818 comments

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Originally Posted by AppleInsider

Other findings by the same developer include preferences to an Apple MobileRadio application, which has also yet to surface.

I would love to see iTunes Radio available on the iPhone.
AOL Radio has a very limited selection.

casper3 18 Years · 14 comments

All we really want is Finder and cut/copy/paste... Give it to us, Apple, in some future software update!

solipsism 19 Years · 25701 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella

I would love to see iTunes Radio available on the iPhone.
AOL Radio has a very limited selection.

Even if it can't run in the background, syncing the iTunes Radio stations would be a nice option over the other App Store radio stations.

solipsism 19 Years · 25701 comments

Quote:
Originally Posted by casper3

All we really want is Finder and cut/copy/paste... Give it to us, Apple, in some future software update!

What do you need Finder for?

funky chicken 18 Years · 42 comments

"...and that engineers simply hadn't gotten around to it yet."

It just kills me how sneaky AAPL is!