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Originally Posted by Matt D
Cheers, Gav 
Better than nothing, at least. Still find it a very odd feature to leave out. |
The thing is, it wasn't just left out, its actively ignored. There have been multitude of updates, and not one has come close. Everyone at Cupertino must have heard about it.
I suspect its disabled for security reasons. Every app is sandboxed (runs in its own memory space) for security. However to copy/paste would mean allowing sandboxes to 'connect' to each other, which deafeats the object of sandboxing in the first place. Or it would mean running the copy/paste as a system-level app which would be dangerous if it were compromised. I should imagine it would be easy too, just copy a malformed string when an exploit is found.