But it has radically changed how we use computerized phones to. This is because copyright holders, publishers and website owners have learnt a thing or two over the early internet/ computer years. The two things that spearheaded the internet Adobe's pdf format and the browser were a mixed blessing for some... Even though the thing they hate is what helped make them popular, its the ability to copy and paste.
Although there are tricks to disable it in browsers and pdfs, most don't use these tools because they are easy to circumvent and people don't like them. Although in the new ecosystem of phones and apps copy & paste is not quite as easy. So quite a lot of the information on these phones is nicely locked away making it hard to copy that phone number into a text or email, impossible to quote something from that 'social' app or that app from your favorite website or publication.
The ironic thing is most of this information is still available in the browser where you can copy it, it's only in the dedicated branded app that you can't.
I guess it's driven by some ego maniac who wants to protect their intellectual property or an over xellos marketing department believing it will make more 'hits' or advert views.
But people like to share and you often don't want to share the whole thing. Imagine if every time you wanted to post a Shakespeare quote you could only post a link to the book and say look at page 143 line 8. Well apps are trying to do the same giving you the easy option to share the whole thing (along with the adverts) but not to easily pull out that relevant single line.
Now I know it's not a big thing, but in a world where the new currency is advertising and patents it could get worse.
Freedom for data, always...
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