chlettn,

of course its not the only casualty, in different environments having to use a finger is futile. Its getting cold round here, I can't imagine many people playing with their iphones stood at the busstop with their gloves on.

Same for driving gloves and gps.

Coming up with a vulcan mind grip for something thats as naturally intuitive as text selection is just stupid.

Thats not innovation thats backtracking and trying to replicate already existing well understood common functionality with something that takes a whole page to explain.