iPhone? Copy and paste now? Please?

So it’s what, a year and a half since the initial iPhone release? And still no copy-and-paste? Seriously?

Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot to love about the iPhone, especially with some of the applications that are making appearances now, but Apple really needs to get some of the basics implemented.

Whenever I complain I always have someone popup to say that it isn’t needed because information just flows between apps. To some extent this is true, it’s one click to call a phone number from an email (assuming it’s formatted correctly, no way to add that missing zero or area code though), Google Maps adds contacts to the address book automatically, etc.

What I can’t figure out is how exactly to flow three 16 digit numbers from an email to a courier’s tracking page to find out when my Christmas gift will be here.

Apple fanbois, enlighten me!

iTunes – 604MB of memory

Dear Apple,

I am currently running an entire virtual instance of Windows Vista (you know, that OS you keep poking holes at in your commercials) and in that instance I am running three different webbrowsers and a mail *server*.

Guess what is using more memory, iTunes or Vista? Now keep in mind one is an operating system and the other is an overgrown music player which Apple has bundled (hmm, wasn’t Apple among those crying about Microsoft’s bundling a couple years ago) with some of their hardware.

Please learn to write more compact code, and for the sake of all that is holy, learn how to use multiple threads so the entire iTunes GUI can be snappy and responsive while it takes iTunes 99% of a 2.4GHz core for over 30 seconds just to connect to an iPhone, will ya?

fatwatch

I stumbled across a neat app for those of you both keeping track of your weight, and owning an iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s called fatwatch, available at the AppStore

It’s a simple concept, every day you fire it up and enter your weight, it keeps track. Yay. However, what it also does is allow you to chart your weight over time, and builds an exponentially smoothed average to help you watch your over-all weight trends, without letting an ice cream day hurt you.

It also allows you to set and measure goals, and based on your current and target weight will give you an estimate as to how you need to adjust your intake.

At $9.95 it’s not the cheapest app on the AppStore, but skip a couple fast food lunches and you’ll have covered the $9.95.