The problem with these comparisons is that people take the rollout date of the end user operating system iOS and compare it to the first release date of the first OS based on a new version of Android.
Since iOS has no cross platform component similar to Android, it would make more sense to compare it to Google's Nexus OS or to Samsung's Galaxy OS.
I think the term "operating system" is so generic that it confuses a lot of people in these discussions. To many people and most tech journalists, the operating system is all software in a device before you install additional software. And by this definition, Android is not an operating system.
Since iOS has no cross platform component similar to Android, it would make more sense to compare it to Google's Nexus OS or to Samsung's Galaxy OS.
I think the term "operating system" is so generic that it confuses a lot of people in these discussions. To many people and most tech journalists, the operating system is all software in a device before you install additional software. And by this definition, Android is not an operating system.