Apple Internally Calls iOS 5 Shortcuts, 'The Kutcher'

Ashton Kutcher is apparently influential with staff at Apple who internally refer to the Shortcuts feature in iOS 5 as the 'The Kutcher', reveals TV Guide.

Shortcuts is a feature that will recognize inputted strings and replace them with predefined text.


It's Week 3 of work on the Two and a Half Men set, and Ashton Kutcher is still getting to know his costars. Conversation drifts toward mobile phones, and Kutcher reveals there's a feature on the iPhone 5 that Apple internally calls "The Kutcher."

What's "The Kutcher"? "An in-mail editable text expander," the actor explains. Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones are dumbfounded. "Jon, how many times did we have this same conversation with Charlie?" jokes 17-year-old Jones. Cryer quips back: "All the time. He was always talking about the new spellcheck on the iPhone."

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