Ex-Apple engineer explains why the first iPhone didn’t have copy and paste

The very first iPhone that was released in 2007 didn’t actually have any sort of copy and paste functionality, and a former Apple engineer may have finally explained why.

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Ken Kocienda joined Apple in 2001 and was a key engineer on the team that developed the first iPhone. On Sunday, Kocienda shared an amusing anecdote detailing why the first-generation Apple handset didn’t have copy and paste.

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