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Nobody is saying users are idiots or that there is no learning curve for some older people using iOS (I have introduced it to people in their 70s and 80s too).

The assertion is that the author is pretending to be an idiot in the way he is claiming the iOS7 is somehow worse than iOS6.

There are faults in iO7, but there is no evidence that it is harder for people to learn, and plenty of evidence that it is basically more usable.