Stupid software tricks

I own an iPhone. No, I didn't wait in line for it on the Friday it went on sale, but I did pick it up that Sunday. In many ways, most ways, it's quite exceptional, and I quite like it.

Yesterday, I received an email message on it that contained a string, a long complex string, that I wanted to save in a different place. No problem, right? You just copy and paste the string.

Wrong. As best I can find, you can't copy (or cut) and paste on the iPhone.

How stupid is that?

Apple, release an update now!