That works for sharing an article or a post, but how do you quote a portion of a post?

On Android, you can happily select some text then hit Share (same menu as Copy and Cut).

That pattern is mainly used to open an app to a specific activity. eg. opening google search to a particular search phrase, or opening the dialer to a particular phone number. I can't see it working for when you're writing a email, and want to include a link/quote/image.

But that's exactly what I just did. Highlighted some text in a news article and Share'd to my email client, it dropped the text in, quoted, to the body of an email with the link to the article under it.

I would really, really miss the clipboard on my phone were it not there. I use it daily.

Also, I couldn't imagine having to use the 'share' functionality just to copy/paste. It's already such a frustrating experience just finding the app I want to share with, that I usually just end up selecting the 'copy link' option, opening the target app, and pasting it.

Copy and paste.

I used to see lots of people question the merits of copy/paste when iOS didn't have it, because iOS didn't have it. When iOS finally got it, I thought the matter settled. The people who previously dismissed the feature now considered it the best Apple innovation since sliced bread (or perhaps the multi-buttoned computer mouse.)

Do you never copy/paste text within the same document? How do you rearrange sentences, paragraphs, etc? Highlight-and-drag is cumbersome in long documents and is really an implementation of cut/paste, not copy/paste.