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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Fingers on a capacitive touchscreen... What a great combination for selecting text for copypasting.

There's a reason why you can't do this on the jPhone.
The reason you can't do it on iPhone is simply that Apple hasn't programmed it. Here's a YouTube concept video showing how copy/paste could be done on the iPhone using multi-touch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nchuidJ_CYw

And here's how it worked on the Apple Newton, 15 years ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sue2BR1AHUE
 

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