The demo for example talks about putting a picture in an email. I would currently right click -> copy. Go to email -> paste. Is this really easier?
The clipboard utility I find most useful is ditto [1], which has a nice history and shortcuts for pasting from your history.
Disclaimer: I'm a windows user, so maybe I missed something.
Windows and Mac lets you drag objects and drop them on target. This works in normal scenario where the object you are trying to drag and the target are easy to identify. It gets very difficult if your target is hard to reach. This app has a brilliant new UI which makes those drag-n-drop operations super easy.
Please see the demo video to understand the app:
In windows at least: http://superuser.com/a/252104
I can think of only a few scenarios where dropping is the only option and pasting isn't available - but clearly those scenarios were real pain points for people!
So, yes, they are equivalent (in certain situations, drag and drop can be a move or whatever else is appropriate). But copy/paste is the alternative. So is cp at a Terminal command line.
See also: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserE...
Any ways - congrats; but not for me :-)
Anyway, extremely interesting to see, so thanks for not all downvoting my ignorance immediately!
Well done as well to the OP for battling and getting his app released. Seems as though the hard work is paying off!
E.g. let's say you have a word document, if you drag and drop it on an open Word window, it will open it. You can't do copy/paste to open the document. If you have an FTP client with drag and drop support, you can drop a file to upload it to the FTP server. In general, a program can attach its own meaning to drag and drop which could be different from copy/paste.