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OpenClip: Universal Copy and Paste for the iPhone

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One of the chief complaints among iPhone and iPod Touch owners has been the lack of a system-wide way to copy and paste content. Apple's SDK forbids application developers to create plug-ins for direct collaboration between applications, and aggressively polices how developers can make use of system resources running in the background. There is a workaround application created for this problem, MagicPad, but it has has the major limitation of only allowing copy and paste within the application itself. Now, as VentureBeat discusses, there is an open source application, OpenClip,? that can enable system-wide copy and paste--if it gets community support.


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FSF vs iPhone

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One thing about the Free Software Foundation: there's seldom any doubt where they stand. Take the blog entry they recently posted: 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G. You can't come away from it thinking that there are pros and cons to the iPhone.

Rather, if you agree with them, you shouldn't even consider putting an iPhone in your pocket. But how well do their arguments stack up?



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Apple's SDK Announcement: Boo, Hiss or Near Miss?

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Apple announced today that it's releasing the Software Development Kit (SDK) for the iPhone. We all know what that means for consumers (more apps!), but what does it mean for open source developers?

Well, that depends on who you talk to. ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn says the move is simply a way to forestall bigger market share losses to Google.



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