because apple needed an operating system for their newer mobile products to run on
IOS Telecom was created in 1988.
IOS Press was created in 1987.
Gridrunner iOS was created on 2012-02-24.
Tetris - iOS - was created on 2008-07-09.
IOS was created on 2007-06-29.
Taiko no Tatsujin - iOS - was created on 2010-02-01.
Rock Band - iOS - was created on 2009-10-19.
This was created to add support for the Verizon iPhone. No device uses it except the Verizon iPhone 4, as the same feature was added to iOS 5, and the iPhone 4S included iOS 5. It is essentially iOS 4.2.3 for Verizon.
Darkroom, a popular photo editing app for iOS, was created in 2013 by Bergen Co.
No, iOS is an operating system that was created, owned and developed by Apple. An operating system means that that is the software the device uses. The processor in an iPod Touch is a microchip.
You do not get iOS 4.0.2 when you update an iPod to iOS 4.1. iOS 4.0.2 is an earlier version and precedes iOS 4.1. The next version after iOS 4.1 will be iOS 4.2.
No, it operates on an Apple operating system (iOS) and was created by Apple.