Dec 12th 2013, 14:00, by Josh Lowensohn
In 2007, early iPhone users had a problem. They wanted to take a snippet of text from one place to another, and their phones wouldn't let them do it. It would take until midway through 2009 for copy and paste to arrive as part of a software update from Apple. That's ages in the technology world, and some savvy developers couldn't wait. They managed to jury-rig a solution that beat Apple to the punch, though it ultimately failed to catch on.
That stand-in was something called OpenClip, which arrived in 2008. It created a simple scratch pad that could be shared between apps, and developers just needed to add the feature to their own software. Only a small number of apps did so, and once Apple added its own utility, OpenClip faded away...
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