iPhone Cut and Paste!!!

It’s is about time – Apple just announced that version 3.0 of the iPhone OS will have, among other things, cut and paste.  This has been one of my pet peeves for a long time, and frankly I can’t believe it hasn’t been done yet.  I don’t understand how it was left out in the first place, but I’m glad that is will be available soon.

Interesting addition to the OS is the ability for messages to be pushed to the device.  I’m excited about this for lots of reasons, but mostly for mobile IM.  I’ve yet to see this done right on any mobile device, so I’m hopeful that this will actually work this time.  Time will telll…

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