Backwards Steps by the WSJ and NYT on iPad : CJR

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Backwards Steps by the WSJ and NYT on iPad

The papers cripple everyday Web features in their apps for a walled-in environment

via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/backwards_steps_by_the_wsj_and.php

One big missing feature in the WSJ and NYT iPad apps: You can’t copy text. Take a screen cap of it all you want, but you can’t get the actual text. That’s a basic function on a computer, and the iPad has a clever cut-and-paste function, but it doesn’t work here.