A letter to Apple

I am a new iPhone owner. Well I have been for 3 months anyway.  This phone is great and I am not an Apple fan. Anyway, back to the point at hand.  The iPhone is great, but I have one issue with it. I decided to write to Apple and tell them about my one minor problem with their device.  It took a good 15 minutes for me to find the comments section on their website which was cause for some frustration.  I just decided I would like to share my letter to Apple. Maybe some of you agree, who knows.

Dear Apple People,
I love this device! Ok let me say some things for background purposes. I am not a fan of Apple. I am anti-Apple. I will never own a Mac or any other product including iPods etc…I have bought numerous Apple products for my loved ones, iMacs, iPods, and on and on – but I would never ever consider a Mac for myself and never will BUT I decided that after extensive research that the iPhone is something that I could bend the rules for. And I have not been disappointed. This is a great product. I can honestly say that I feel that a two year contract with AT&T is no problem; this device is a joy to use. It has far exceeded my expectations. I would expect nothing less from Apple (even though I don’t use I recognize it is quality stuff Anyway there is one thing that this phone is missing to make it fit for adult use. Sorry for the length here but I have to set it up for context. I have always used windows CE handhelds. And I thought I could trade in my iPaq for the iPhone but sadly I cannot just yet. Why you ask – “cut and paste” – there is no cut and paste on the iPhone. Now you may not feel that this is important but if you search the internet you will see it is in fact important. If I am going to do anything serious like update my webpage, use large amounts of data I don’t want to replicate by hand or grab text from a webpage I bust out my iPaq. Now I ask my kids about the cut and paste issue with the iPhone and they don’t care – why – because they don’t have jobs. They could care less about cut and paste. The iPhone has lots of stuff the kids enjoy, such as an iPod to listen to all their angst filled music, you can watch videos and play goofy app games. So while I love my iPhone, I feel it is not quiet yet ready for adult (grown people) use. It does everything I want except when it comes to work. It’s useless when I want to use it for work for the simple fact I can’t cut and paste. So until you add this one feature I will continue to deploy my adult device the trusty iPaq windows mobile device with the ability to move mountains of text with the click of a stylus. But I will wait patiently (you have 2 years) to retire my iPaq. I am sad to say if it’s not on the iPhone at the end of my contract I will have to get an adult phone. But I am hoping and yes maybe even praying a little that you do add this feature. You guys can figure anything out, your Apple so come on – do it – do it now. It’s really getting old carrying around two devices when clearly one is so much cooler than the other except for one tiny but very important feature.  Regards – John New fan (pending two year contract and cut and paste)