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> and had to change everything in iOS in that period.

I may be confused by wording here, sorry: which one does "had to" mean:

* there was some external force pushing him (I'm thinking CEO rather than bloggers' complaints)

* he couldn't resist the urge

It somehow feels like the latter is what really happened, but I do not have any sources for that, and would be happy to know.

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I certainly don't know: it could well be people rushing to get their musk on iOS after the Forstall ouster, but http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-09/apple-loses-china-s... could have something to do with it too. Maybe after that kind of bad news Apple decided it needed to get its new China-oriented iPhone out quickly to stop the bleeding, at the cost of time to dink alignments and overlaps?