Ex-Apple engineer explains why the first iPhone didn't have copy and paste – Naples FL

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The very first iPhone that was released in 2007 didn’t actually have any sort of copy and paste functionality, and a former Apple engineer may have finally explained why.

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Ken Kocienda joined Apple in 2001 and was a key engineer on the team that developed the first iPhone. On Sunday, Kocienda shared an amusing anecdote detailing why the first-generation Apple handset didn’t have copy and paste.