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OpenClip Is Closed Again

Posted from ReadWriteWeb 88 days ago
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Just a few days ago, we wrote about OpenClip - an open framework for implementing copy and paste on the iPhone. Developer Zac White had found a loophole that allowed for the creation of a shared clipboard, as long as all applications followed the same guidelines. Today, however, Zac announced that the next generation of the iPhone firmware (2.1) will close this loophole. OpenClip will still work within a single application, but sharing between applications is now impossible. We were quite happy to see that an enterprising developer had found a way to implement copy and paste even before Apple... (original story)