The 'droid can't even handle 9 right now

At its annual WWDC conference, Apple announced iOS 9 - the next level of mobile operating system for iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices. While iOS 9 does not offer anything radical in terms of design, the biggest feature in the new OS is what Apple calls ‘Proactive assistance.’ This new feature relies on deep-search linking, along with data from third-party apps to provide results that are most relevant to a user. And it sounds a lot like Google Now. But the big question - will it prove to be a worthy challenger to the Google voice-assistant? For starters, proactive assistance is going to take the place of Spotlight in iOS 9 and it will give users the most relevant information based on the context they put in. For example, it can learn what music you listen to in the gym at what time of day and it will put that on for you when say you plug the iPhone into a set of speakers. In addition to this, Proactive will also automatically add invites and reminders to your calendar without a user having to tap and do it themselves. Also, searches via Proactive will be anonymous, and not shared with third-parties or linked to other Apple services. In Google Now’s case, it is invariably linked to other Google products and services including your email. Apple showed WWDC how Proactive assistance will work and gave demos of the service, but it’s not clear if iOS 9 will offer an option to users to log out of this new service. We'll just have to find out when iOS 9 is ready to download.