On the issue of copy-paste in Windows Phone
The recent news about the absence of such an absolutely important feature as copying and pasting arbitrary selected text into Windows Phone caused a flurry of disturbances and a storm of indignation.
Pay attention to the "official", which I used, instead of saying banal "copy-paste". Or "trivial functionality", as many call it in the comments.
Let's get a look. What is needed in order to highlight text on the phone screen with a multitouch?
')
It would seem that all this goes without saying and has already been implemented in the same iPhone.
Stop. We said "already implemented"? That's exactly where the dog is buried, which, oddly enough, can be a serious obstacle to the "copy-paste" in Windows Phone. This dog is called a patent.
In 2008, Apple registered a patent in which we meet such things as
Doesn’t it really, “slightly” remind of the points that we ourselves just invented?
Therefore, before the copy / paste appears in Windows Phone, Microsoft will have to implement something quite different from the similar method in the iPhone, or find ways to circumvent this patent.
For now ... I think you shouldn’t blame Microsoft for incompetence and inability to implement such a "banal" and "trivial" functionality.
UPD. In order to avoid misunderstanding, this is not a patent for the function itself, but a patent for the implementation of this function in multi-touch devices.
Pay attention to the "official", which I used, instead of saying banal "copy-paste". Or "trivial functionality", as many call it in the comments.
Let's get a look. What is needed in order to highlight text on the phone screen with a multitouch?
')
- Of course, a way to show the phone that we are starting to highlight the word.
- Of course, the labels to the right and left of the selection, so that you can move them and set a new selection (expanding or pinching the previous border)
- Of course, a pop-up window with options like "copy, cut, paste"
It would seem that all this goes without saying and has already been implemented in the same iPhone.
Stop. We said "already implemented"? That's exactly where the dog is buried, which, oddly enough, can be a serious obstacle to the "copy-paste" in Windows Phone. This dog is called a patent.
In 2008, Apple registered a patent in which we meet such things as
- definition of the beginning of the text selection
- selection and markers
- movement and movement of markers
- pop-up windows to work with selected text
Doesn’t it really, “slightly” remind of the points that we ourselves just invented?
Therefore, before the copy / paste appears in Windows Phone, Microsoft will have to implement something quite different from the similar method in the iPhone, or find ways to circumvent this patent.
For now ... I think you shouldn’t blame Microsoft for incompetence and inability to implement such a "banal" and "trivial" functionality.
UPD. In order to avoid misunderstanding, this is not a patent for the function itself, but a patent for the implementation of this function in multi-touch devices.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/87903/
All Articles