The iPhone brought by Steve Jobs in 2007 changed the world, but looking at it from the current perspective, it was really imperfect at that time, and many functions were missing, and the reasons behind this were also announced by some developers. Former Apple software engineer and designer Ken Kocienda has revealed the reasoning behind why the original iPhone was missing a key feature – copy and paste. Kocienda joined Apple in 2001 and is one of the key engineers behind the iPhone. Apple engineers didn’t have time to implement copy and paste on the first iPhone, Kocienda said. According to him, at the time the team was busy creating the iPhone’s virtual keyboard and its autocorrection system. After the iPhone launched, Kocienda and his team finally decided to develop a copy and paste option, but it still took a while before the feature was ready for users. The engineer explained that he came up with the idea of a “magnifying text magnifying glass” that lets users know exactly where they point their text cursor, which is crucial for copying and pasting. However, even with a classic virtual magnifying glass, due to natural flickering, .
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