No cut and paste? That was bad in the beginning and it's still bad. It will be good to have better battery life, but I just bought an external battery like I had for the first generation iPhone. I see that the new earphones are also not available until November. I guess that an announcement is just that: an announcement, not a promise of availability. I'm disappointed by the artificial buzz that Apple tries to create prior to the actual availability of the product. I'd like it better if the product was available when it was announced.