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Re:iPhone X by redial on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:56PM (#15230480)
Apple has never been first with any feature, don't know what gave you that impression.

Not even copy and paste.

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Re:iPhone X by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:08PM (#15230708)
They're rarely the first to market with a feature, but they often are the first to really succeed at one, including cut/copy/paste.
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Re:iPhone X by vilmosi on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:48PM (#15231534)
What was so special about their copy/paste?
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Re:iPhone X by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:02PM (#15231792)
> Apple Computer widely popularized the computer-based cut/copy-and-paste paradigm through the Lisa (1983) and Macintosh (1984) operating systems and applications.

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut%2C_copy%2C_and_paste)

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Re:iPhone X by theshrike79 on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @04:31PM (#15232241)
On phones, their FIRST copy/paste version worked between apps, worked with pictures as well as text, etc.
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Re:iPhone X by redial on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:20PM (#15230941)
Which is just what I said.
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