Why did apple announce the iOS 8 before the new iPhone?

I'm leaving for Brazil at the end of august and every one is saying that the new iPhone 6 will be released in september, i still have hope that it will come out in august but that doesn't really matter right now. I just want to know, WHY apple has announced the new iOS 8 BEFORE the new iPhone 6?

No one knows other then guessing

Many phones are planned to come in the summer. Apple wants the consumer market to know that they have made major changes to the IOS so they can hold on to their old phones until the next iPhone comes out or they don't replace their existing iPhone. Plus they needed something to talk about at WWDC.

Apple always announces the new iOS version many months before the next phone (this happened last year with iOS 7 and the iPhone 5S). This is for developers to test it for bugs and finalize it before the update is released to the public.

They need developers to install and test iOS 8 before it's released to the public. In fact, you can install iOS 8 now if you register your device's UDID with a developer account through a site like http://www.udid.in/ for $5.

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