ZenZui becomes Zumobi in preparation for December public beta
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Nov 13th 2007 12:51AM
posted Nov 13th 2007 12:51AM
posted Nov 13th 2007 12:51AM
Number of applications downloaded from the iPhone App Store
After hitting a historic 1 billion downloads, Apple says the store cleared another half a billion apps in the following three months.
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Hmmm... I've had a play around on the demon on their website, but I must say that I still have no idea what exactly this is for.
Surely with better web browsers and the ability to share bookmarks, this interface will be redundant?
Why Zumobie is better - well, dude if you go look at a tile, its code and data are already on your phone. There is no waiting for the network.
Yeah, I still don't get it. It sounds like a glorified version of offline browsing. The only time cached content is useful is in a subscription environment, like RSS feeds. Sure, it would be cool to have the last 3 days of Engadget cached so that I could zoom around and get crazy with less latency than a typical browsing experience but I can pretty much do that with RSS.
And Opera mini is already doing this. You setup your speed dial sites that you can then access with a single click of the numeric key pad. So whoopty doo, this one gives you 16 instead of 9. But once you actually get to the page, the novelty of the "tiles" is sure to wear off. Worse yet, it seems like it will require proprietary content to be developed which is seldom a good thing.
Oh, and whatever happened to DeepFish?
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-28Deepfish.mspx
The second i was the picture, it reminded me of Siemens phone.
I think it's not proprietary content as much as a new type of mechanism that allows a "tile" to declare what information it needs from the internet, rather than having to worry about exactly how and when it gets from the internet to the phone.
Initially I was excited about this interface and then not so much as time passes and it becomes a ad presenter instead of a content provider. I've met these guys and they are completely drugged by their product and narassistic view of self. They won't even be aware when they're product is eclipsed and company fails until the investors lock the door.