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iOS is 6 years old, not 7

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Altis

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Reviewers keep saying it, users keep saying it, now even Federighi at Apple is saying that iOS has been out for 7 years.

It was released in June 2007. We're September 2013. 2013-2007 = 6 years (6.25 including the months).

7 years ago was 2006. When iOS 2 came out, iOS was 1 year old.

Am I missing something?
 
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Altis said:
Reviewers keep saying it, users keep saying it, now even Federighi at Apple is saying that iOS has been out for 7 years.

It was released in June 2007. We're September 2013. 2013-2007 = 6 years (6.25 including the months).

7 years ago was 2006. When iOS 2 came out, iOS was 1 year old.

Am I missing something?
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2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. That's 7 years if you include 2007.
 
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virginblue4 said:
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. That's 7 years if you include 2007.
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not really , it was released in June of 2007, so you dont count the whole years, you go

June 07 to June 08 = 1 Year

that makes it around 6.25 years like he said.

If you counted the way you're doing then by June of 2008 it would've already been two years old.
 
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Altis said:
I just wanted to check if I was losing my mind.
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People are going by the year each version was introduced, not each subsequent year after iOS 7

iOS 1: 2007
iOS 2: 2008
iOS 3: 2009
iOS 4: 2010
iOS 5: 2011
iOS 6: 2012
iOS 7: 2013

Thus, for the past 7 years we've gotten a new version of iOS. iOS itself however, is only 6.25 years old.

Kind of warped, but oh well.
 
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It's still wrong to say 7 years ago when it's been 6. 7 years ago was 2006.

Saying "for the past 7 years" means 2006...

If you look at the years you listed, the duration is 6.
 
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it's just a common mistake humans make. i recently celebrated my 28th birthday. someone toasted me to have a great 29th year of my life. it was sad to see how many college graduates tried to correct him saying i was beginning the 28th year of my life. even when explained as "when you turn 1, are you starting your first year or second year of life?" some people (that i used to have intellectual respect for) didn't get it.
 
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FamiliaPhoto said:
They are rounding to whole years a very common business practice. Why does it matter?
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I think they're just mistaken.

It does matter because it's false information. If someone said the iPhone 5 was 2 years old (by your same logic), people would correct it saying it's been out for 1 year.

The thread title is very descriptive... If it doesn't interest you, please disregard.
 
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Altis said:
It's still wrong to say 7 years ago when it's been 6. 7 years ago was 2006.

Saying "for the past 7 years" means 2006...

If you look at the years you listed, the duration is 6.
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Again, they're going by when iOS was first introduced. Basically they're considering iOS 1's announcement the first year of iOS's existance. It's a weird way of looking at it, but that's how they're doing it.
 
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chrf097 said:
Again, they're going by when iOS was first introduced. Basically they're considering iOS 1's announcement the first year of iOS's existance. It's a weird way of looking at it, but that's how they're doing it.
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If that's the case, it's still incorrect to say "7 years ago". That phrase has a meaning and in this case, it's incorrect. As does "7 years old".

Anybody hearing that phrase would immediately know it refers to a time around 7 years ago.

I'm not 27 because I just turned 26. iOS 1 was not 1 year old when it was released.
 
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Altis said:
If that's the case, it's still incorrect to say "7 years ago". That phrase has a meaning and in this case, it's incorrect. As does "7 years old".

Anybody hearing that phrase would immediately know it refers to a time around 7 years ago.

I'm not 27 because I just turned 26. iOS 1 was not 1 year old when it was released.
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No, they're not saying iOS is one year old, they're saying for the past 7 years there has been an iOS release, which is correct, since for the last 7 years, each one saw a release of iOS.

iOS is 6 years old, in the definition of a full calendar year before the next version, but there has been an iOS release for the last 7 years (counting 2013), which is what they are referring to.

It's kind of a sneak tactic but they aren't wrong.
 
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chrf097 said:
No, they're not saying iOS is one year old, they're saying for the past 7 years there has been an iOS release, which is correct, since for the last 7 years, each one saw a release of iOS.

iOS is 6 years old, in the definition of a full calendar year before the next version, but there has been an iOS release for the last 7 years (counting 2013), which is what they are referring to.

It's kind of a sneak tactic but they aren't wrong.
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Bingo, that's pretty much it. Over the last 7 calendar years (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) we've had iOS.
 
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Altis said:
I think they're just mistaken.

It does matter because it's false information. If someone said the iPhone 5 was 2 years old (by your same logic), people would correct it saying it's been out for 1 year.

The thread title is very descriptive... If it doesn't interest you, please disregard.
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No worries and I'm not attacking. Its a common business practice to round years to whole numbers. Remember when you buy a new car it is already considered a year old. Its a strange practice, and a common one.
 
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C DM said:
Bingo, that's pretty much it. Over the last 7 calendar years (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) we've had iOS.
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Except that he said "seven years ago".... which is 2006, no matter how you try to view it.

Using that logic (counting each year during which it was present) is incorrect. By that logic, something could be 2 years old after 10 minutes if it was released December 31st at 11:55 PM. :rolleyes:

"seven years ago" and "seven years old" means precisely 2006. It's just a mistake people are making because it's the 7th iteration of iOS.
 
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C DM said:
Bingo, that's pretty much it. Over the last 7 calendar years (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) we've had iOS.
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I can't tell how old you think iOS is.

The phone came out on June 29, 2007. Would you say it was one year old on June 30, 2007 or June 29, 2008?
 
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