OpenClip says iPhone firmware 2.1 breaks it

Anyone getting used to the cross-app clipboard framework for the iPhone wrought by OpenClip, heads up: your party might be drawing to an end. The organization says that apps no longer have access to the common storage areas of other apps in the latest beta of firmware 2.1, which basically puts the kibosh on the very reason OpenClip is able to do what it does. They're throwing around a couple ideas -- one of which would involve creating a funky-looking contact in your address book to marshal data between apps, while another would see data get pushed to a server, a move that Apple would effectively be unable to stop. Then again, with rumors still fresh that real copy / paste is coming in 2.1, maybe these guys want to hold off for just a bit to see what happens.

[Via AppleInsider]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 2:55PM]

Why am I not surprised? Rhetorical question

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 7:10PM]

Do you know how to use the comments? Rhetorical question.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 2:57PM]

Why am I not surprised? Rhetorical question.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 7:10PM]

Do you know how to use the comments? Rhetorical question.

[Higher Up Posted Sep 1st 2008 3:36PM]

Maybe they'll give us copy & paste so we don't need that.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 3:59PM]

A day or two after information on OpenClip became public people already figured out that the next iPhone update was going to break the method in which OpenClip operated...

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 5:14PM]

Apple needs to get their sh1t together. I dont even understand how the iPhone 3g got out of the door with the lag, bugs, problems, and quirks compared to their 1st gen offering. The 1st gen phone became so refined software wise and reliable, I cant understand how such a proud company released this crap.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 7:09PM]

Because they knew people would buy it regardless. If anything is branded "Apple", people will buy it.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 1st 2008 11:38PM]

Aye, and Engadget will have 30 posts about it. Here is my official challenge to ANY editor here at Engadget...when the HTC Touch Pro is released, I wan't to see AS MANY or MORE posts about it within the first week of release as the iPhone got, and about every single solitary miniscule feature/bug/packaging/person in line, etc. If this challenge is not at least attemped, I will have lost all faith in you as a tech-blog as a whole, and assume that you are at least partially owned by Apple Inc. Feel free to low rank me if you must, but most Windows Mobile, and non-Apple ass-wipe fanboys will agree. Good day.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 2nd 2008 12:20PM]

@ Derek Obviously as about as good as you do. Next time you try to up yourself for being a smarta$$ try not to make the same mistake I made. Thanks for playing GG.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 2nd 2008 2:40PM]

Yea... I guess you couldn't tell that was intentional? Rhetorical question.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 2nd 2008 4:23PM]

You're an a$$! That's a statement not a question.