The headline is slightly tongue in cheek, of course, but there were some striking 'Duh' moments for Symbian users during last night's launch of Apple's iOS 7 for their iPhones (etc.) I've highlighted a few of them below, for your interest and amusement. You have to wonder though, for how many years will other operating systems still be launching features and concepts that Symbian has/had up to a decade before?

Ah yes, a whole new version of iOS, let's take a few aspects that leapt out at those familiar with Symbian....

Multitasking? Really? With a great battery life? Got to be Symbian in 2002, surely? And every one of the 500 million Symbian devices shipped in the following decade?

Ah, so not full multitasking after all (maybe that will come in 2014?) In fairness to Apple, their 'the OS knows best' limited multitasking will work quite well for most people, but hard core Symbian geeks and developers know full well that this isn't free-for-all multitasking where an app can do what it wants, when it wants, in the background....

The multitasking carousel, I can't think where I've seen that before... Hmm.... Anyone help me out here? Ah, got it. Am sure I've been using this on Symbian for several years...

Ah yes, the garish theme with childish icons, ripped straight from a thousand amateur Symbian themes over the last decade. Look, I'm as much of an Apple fan as the next guy, owning several Macs, iPads and iPhones, but these icons would have made Steve Jobs turn in his grave. Hey, maybe they were licensed from a bedroom Symbian theme maker, after all?

Talking of themes, iOS 7 catches up to Symbian circa 2003 - changing the cosmetics of your phone with one easy change? Innovative, eh? Well... it was ten years ago....

Themes they are... even if Apple isn't calling them by this label.., (you trigger them by changing your wallpaper, it seems)

What's this now.... a toolbar that...

...auto-hides when it's not needed? OK, it's a fair cop, Symbian's browser is pretty terrible in this regard (in that the toolbar is sadly permanent), but Opera Mobile, Opera Mini and Gravity have all been auto-hiding their toolbars on Symbian for years.

Talking of Gravity, iOS 7 introduces transparency, with content from a background layer appearing blurred out behind foreground content. Darn it, I'm sure Gravity has been doing this for years on Symbian... 

A note to Apple and iOS trolls, I'm quoting all this with tongue firmly in cheek. Though iOS's evolution and its appropriation of elements and ideas in Symbian, Android, Meego and WebOS does rather reflect the way that all mobile operating systems copy from each other these days. Is that a problem? Probably only to patent lawyers - as a user, we're all the winners at the end of the day.

You can see the full Apple keynote here, note that the iOS 7 coverage doesn't start until roughly 75% the way through.