The first iPhone released in 2007 didn't actually have a copy/paste function, and a former Apple engineer explained why.
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Apple introduced the first iPhone 15 years ago, and a lot has changed since then. Now we're talking about rumors of the next iPhone with 8K video and a new display, but it's hard to believe that the iPhone once didn't even have copy/paste options. Now former Apple engineer and software designer Ken Kocienda has revealed details about why the first iPhone didn't have such features.
Ken Kocienda joined Apple in 2001 and was a key engineer on the team that developed the first iPhone. On Sunday, Kocienda shared the following tweet.
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According to Kocienda, the answer is that the team didn't have time to "get it right" before the first iPhone shipped. The former Apple engineer said he was busy working on the keyboard, autocorrect , and texting on the device.
Eventually, shortly after the iPhone debuted, the team began working on the copy/paste feature. Kocienda added that the “magnifying text loupe,” which would magnify the text the user had their finger on, was his idea.
Another interesting tidbit Kocienda shared had to do with the text system on the first iPhone. Specifically, the engineer said that WebKit powered virtually all of the text.
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Kocienda said he was well-prepared for this project, as he added text editing to WebKit between 2003 and 2005.
Information source: appleinsider.com
