iPhone Update Crushes OpenClip’s Copy-and-Paste Dreams
File under: that didn’t take long. OpenClip, an effort to bring copy-and-paste features to the iPhone, has shutdown.
As we mentioned last week, the developers of OpenClip discovered a loophole that allowed iPhone apps to shared clipboard data, as long as all applications used the OpenClip framework. Unfortunately the loophole is something Apple decided to close off with the iPhone 2.1 software update.
Apps using OpenClip will still work and you can copy and paste text within any app that uses the framework, but the ability to share it between apps will disappear with the update, rendering OpenClip somewhat less useful. It seems like some sort of web-based clipboard storage might solve the problem, but so far that hasn’t been explored.
It’s too bad Apple decided to close the hole, but there are some valid security reasons for doing so (at least in terms of maintaining the iron-fisted control that Apple wants).
So there you go, your copy-and-paste dreams for the iPhone crushed by a mother-ship that will deliver such features when the whim strikes it, users and developers be damned.
[via CNet]
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