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Comment by cantSpellSober | Hacker News Reader

Every company does do it. I'd like to see Apple's 2010 version for comparison. Something like:

1. Samsung has copy and paste

I don't want to be pedantic, but in fact point 13 in these slides says the opposite: Safari has copy&paste and the Samsung browser has not.

That's the interesting difference: While Android may have been "first" to copy&paste, Apple would not have released the feature in a state where it does not work system wide.

> Apple would not have released the feature in a state where it does not work system wide

This is false. They released it in Safari in iOS 1, in a state where it did not work system-wide (across iOS).

No one used Samsung Browser, they just downloaded Chrome :) (which had it in 2009/Android Cupcake).

No. copy&paste was released with iPhone OS 3.0 system wide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS_3)

I agree—to repeat: the feature did not work system-wide on release; only in Safari (iOS 1 being 2008).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_OS_3

Copy and paste did not exist at all on the iPhone in 2008 - not even in Safari.

[https://www.wired.com/2008/09/iphone-22-safar/] [https://x.com/kocienda/status/1538536958258909184]

More introspection is needed to get this right. Apple has copy and paste. And they even had a sort of decent text selection at some point (iOS 16?), so their list surely still thinks that this capability is fully functional.

Not sure what you mean, iPhone 1 didn't have it because "[Ken Kocienda] didn’t have time to do it right."

https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1538536958258909184

Once it was added (2 phones later) it was such a big deal they had an ad for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKjESdHPGB0

I misread the comment to which I was replying. Oops.

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