True indeed, however, the point remains: IOC is resolving an instance with it's dependencies. How you do that is irrelevant. The point is that the action of

True indeed, however, the point remains: IOC is resolving an instance with it's dependencies. How you do that is irrelevant. The point is that the action of resolving dependencies is NOT dependency injection. If you're writing an IOC container, call it an IOC container.