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Apple wanted to advertise you couldn't press the wrong button, which meant they couldn't have more than one button.
You could still press it at the wrong time. ;)
It amazes me that something as simple and obvious as cut and paste had to be invented. Even more amazing that we can actually point to the person that did it.
It's a good reminder, that everything had to be invented at some point in time. Even trivial stuff as boiling tea water ...
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Back before 2009, early iPhones didn't have cut/copy and paste. Folks had to figure out a good scheme that worked with touch screens.
Which I found flabbergasting at the time, because it had been a standard feature on PDAs ten years prior. I only bought an iPhone once it gained cut&paste support.
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To be fair, people also had to be taught how to point with a mouse. The double-click also wasn't essential, you could perform all actions using the one-click menus. The double-click was introduced as a shortcut. From the Apple Lisa Owner's Guide: 8 Shortcuts The File/Print menu contains all of the commands you need for creating, opening, closing, and storing your documents. Because you use these commands so frequentl…
Pointing with the mouse is discoverable though. If you start moving it - which odds are you will do sometime (even by accident) you will see the pointer moving and eventually figure it out. You are very unlikely to discover the double click by accident.
There is a trade-off between feature sets that are useful if you know them and super discoverable feature sets, in the sense that the reason some feature is more efficient can also make it less discoverable.
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There will be a lot of obvious stuff invented in the future that we aren't thinking about now.
Often the obvious stuff was invented decades ago, but some old people in power persistently refuse to implement into major products. Like the ability to copy multiple things without overwriting the previous entry. Who would ever need that?!
It amazes me that something as simple and obvious as cut and paste had to be invented. Even more amazing that we can actually point to the person that did it.
The alternative, as used e.g. by the Xerox Star, was select-and-copy/move. The advantage over cut-and-paste is that you don't have invisible fragile state. However, the Star implementation had copy and move modes (select source, COPY, mouse to destination, CLICK) and Tesler hated modes. I don't know why Star didn't use the modeless version (select source, mouse to destination, COPY).
There’s a reason copy usually gets the C shortcuts I think.
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To be fair, people also had to be taught how to point with a mouse. The double-click also wasn't essential, you could perform all actions using the one-click menus. The double-click was introduced as a shortcut. From the Apple Lisa Owner's Guide: 8 Shortcuts The File/Print menu contains all of the commands you need for creating, opening, closing, and storing your documents. Because you use these commands so frequentl…
Pointing with the mouse is discoverable though. If you start moving it - which odds are you will do sometime (even by accident) you will see the pointer moving and eventually figure it out. You are very unlikely to discover the double click by accident.
What you see is what I get
It amazes me that something as simple and obvious as cut and paste had to be invented. Even more amazing that we can actually point to the person that did it.
Back before 2009, early iPhones didn't have cut/copy and paste. Folks had to figure out a good scheme that worked with touch screens.