Today I just saw the iPhone 3GS, proudly announcing that... the iPhone now had.... copy & paste (not cut, btw).

I laughed. It was funny. The "presenter" was not speaking about unusual copy paste combinations, requiring overly complex implementations like OLE. He just copied and pasted some text and a bitmap. No formatting. Hell, I even shared the laugh with some still-using-a-featurephone (with copy&paste) friends. One of them even said, word per word, "I though It could do that already".

I am sorry, but everybody who has bought an iPhone deserves it (note that I'm not insulting anyone).
There's no way you're going to convince them with features alone (and this should make you --and me-- think twice before faithfully repeating again that "that this bug/feature needs to be fixed in order for maemo to be a success"). Now, if you have bricks or some other throwable projectile...