iOS7 is more like iOS6 than any it is anything else.

iOS has certainly adopted features from other platforms over time. But what has been adopted in the other direction is far greater.

If you are referring to the removal of skeuomorphic style elements, then it's true that android and windows phone were always less skeuomorphic than iOS, but that's irrelevant to the technology.

True, even the hardware iterations aren't exciting. Rebranding the 5 as the 5C is disappointing.

Where Apple do lead is in software, Android is getting better for the regular user but it's still not even close. Vertical integration works.

for varying definitions of "regular users" and "works"