Arnold Kim
Arnold is the Editorial Director of MacRumors and founded the site in February, 2000.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold was also a practicing physician but gave it up in 2008 to focus on this website. He has been writing about Apple for over 20 years, and has been profiled by the New York Times, and interviewed by various news publications about his knowledge of Apple.
He continues to run MacRumors, and provides editorial oversight as well as business direction.
Arnold Kim's Articles
iTunes Still Well Ahead of Amazon MP3 Store
Reuters reports on the latest data tracking digital music downloads. Specifically, they look at Amazon's MP3 downloads after a full year of sales. According to their data, Amazon remains a distant second to iTunes: Major-label sources say that they had hoped the company would have fared better than it did. Amazon has yet to release any sales figures for digital music, and it did not respond to...
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iPhone 3G Unlocked, Software Release on New Years
Gizmodo reports that the iPhone Dev Teams has unlocked the iPhone 3G and are planning to release the software on December 31st. While it took a little longer than the free iPhone EDGE unlock, it does sound like this is the real deal. The team is claiming a successful unlocknow the next step is to package it up in a user-friendly GUI app like Pwnage Tool."Unlocking" is the process by which...
Apple Mac Sales Flat in November
Early numbers from NPD Group reveal that Apple's retail sales numbers for November have shown flat year-over-year growth. Declining Mac desktop sales are said to be playing a major role in these relatively poor numbers. In November, Mac desktop sales were down 38 percent while Windows desktops fell only 15 percent. In contrast, however, Apple's notebook sales outperformed the industry with 22...
Apple Delivers Desktop MobileMe 'Push' Services with 10.5.6
One of the most notable improvements that accompanied yesterday's Mac OS X 10.5.6 update was the delivery of long promised MobileMe Push functionality to desktop and notebook Macs.
Despite advertising their MobileMe service as providing Push services from your Mac, Apple's original implementation only offered intermittent sync services. Apple acknowledged the mistake in an apology letter and...
iPhone Developer Success Stories Continue to Inspire
Most developers will tell you that getting rich quickly through an iPhone App is the exception, but the stories of those who do continue to inspire many. Newsweek profiles some of the biggest winners of the App Store at this early stage.
Ge Wang is the developer behind Smule who has created a number of $0.99 applications, the most popular of which is Ocarina, a virtual musical wind instrument ...
New Mac Mini at Macworld San Francisco 2009?
Wired claims that Apple will be launching a new version of its Mac mini computer at Macworld Expo San Francisco in January.
Wired cites an Apple corporate employee as the source who could only confirm a release date at Macworld Expo. The Mac mini has been long overdue for updates leading many to assume that it had been abandoned by Apple. Recent reports have indeed suggested that a Mac mini...
IDG: Jobs Expected to Give Macworld Keynote [Updated: Uncertain]
Businessweek's Arik Hesseldahl spoke with VP at IDG World Expo Paul Kent, who assured him that Steve Jobs was expected to speak at Macworld San Francisco's keynote and that a joint announcement was coming soon. "We haven't made the announcement yet. We usually do this in concert with Apple... I have no reason to believe that plans are not moving ahead," for Jobs to speak.Steve Jobs has...
Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.5.6
Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.6 to customers this afternoon. The 10.5.6 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.Apple details the changes in this support document. Some highlights include: - Improves reliability of Address Book syncing with iPhone and other devices ...
iPhone Nano Rumors Revived in Otherwise Quiet Lead-in to Macworld
Questionably reliable iDealsChina publishes information and renderings of what it claims to be an "iPhone nano". It is the same height as the just release Nano but wider and thicker and with the same iPhone 3G contours.iPhone "nano" rumors have persisted for some time with speculation that Apple could introduce a smaller/cheaper version of the iPhone. The site claims the product will be...
Microsoft Offers Seadragon App for iPhone
This weekend, Microsoft entered the iPhone market with their first application called Seadragon Mobile [App Store]. The free application is a product of Microsoft Live Labs and offers iPhone users the ability to view ultra-high resolution images on your iPhone: Seadragon is designed to provide next-generation visual experiences, regardless of the size of the screen, size of the file or speed...
Apple Broadens App Store Acceptance, Approves 'Pull My Finger'
One of the major criticisms of the App Store has been a seemingly arbitrary rejection policy on the part of Apple. Air-o-Matic was one of the developers rejected by Apple for the reason of "limited utility" for his humor app "Pull My Finger". Sam of Air-o-Matic contacted us to let us know that Apple has now accepted "Pull My Finger" into the App Store [link, $0.99].
Sam apparently got a...
iPod Touch Gaming Ad Shakes Things Up
Adage points to a major new ad campaign from Apple which is currently running on http://games.yahoo.com/. Apple's latest web ad goes outside the usual bounds of traditional banner ads by affecting other portions of Yahoo's page (the ad must be initiated by the visitor). Apple's newest online ad has a pretty cool media placement -- something that we're starting to see more and more. Its agency,...
Apple Adds Top 100 App Listings Per Category
Solrobots.com, developer of SaveBenjis [App Store] let us know that he had found new Top 100 listings per category in the iTunes Store.
The changes have not yet propagated out to all iTunes clients, but here is a list of what we've found so far.
Books: Paid / Free
Business: Paid / Free
Education: Paid / Free
Entertainment: Paid / Free
Finance: Paid / Free
Games: Paid / Free...
Mac OS X 10.5.6 Release Imminent... Friday?
Apple has seeded yet another build of Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55) to developers. This latest seed reveals no known issues and has addressed a few outstanding issues.
Beyond this, we have heard that Apple has started distributing this particular seed internally outside of the usual developer circles. This would indicate that this is the final version of Mac OS X 10.5.6 before public release. We...
Apple Exploring 3D Desktop and Application Interfaces
Dozens of Apple patent applications were published today revealing research that Apple had done in 2007 on many topics encompassing future versions of Mac OS X. The most intriguing is a series of patent applications which describe a "Multidimensional" user interface. Apple has essentially been working on true 3D desktop environments. Disclosed herein are systems, aparatus and methods,...
Apple Removes Top 100 Listings from App Store (For Now)
Apple has removed the Top 100 Paid and Free App Store listings from the App Store this afternoon for unclear reasons. Some speculate that Apple could be reformulating the listings based on recent criticism. It's also possible that it is simply at temporary technical error.
A recent listing of the Top 100 Paid and Free apps are available at AppShopper.com.
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App Store Developers Debate Pricing and Marketing
While the iTunes App Store has been a huge success in terms of iPhone app distribution, there have been lingering complaints that the current structure encourages a "race to the bottom" with massive competition dropping the price of apps towards $0.99. The most vocal complaint about the current system comes from Craig Hockenberry who published an open letter to Steve Jobs on the issue: As an...
Movie Availability on iTunes May Be Temporary
CNet explains the reason behind a Macworld report last week that several movies had disappeared from the iTunes Store. Frequent Macworld contributor Kirk McElhearn noticed something interesting when he went to grab a movie from the iTunes Store. Of the 15 films he had bookmarked for later viewing, an astounding nine were no longer available for purchase. Or rental. Nor, for that matter, did...
Latest Firefox 3.1 Beta Adds Multi-Touch Support
On Monday, Mozilla released the latest beta version of Firefox 3.1. This "Beta 2" version of the popular web browser adds a number of new features across all supported platforms including:
- Private Browsing Mode
- Faster JavaScript engine
- Improved rendering
- Support for new web technologies.
But one feature unique to the Mac build is support for Apple's multi-touch trackpad which...
Steve Jobs Personally Picks Songs for Apple iPod Touch Ads
A SongFacts interview with The Asteroids Galaxy Tour who had their song Around The Bend featured in a recent iPod Touch ad. In asking how they were chosen, the band revealed that Steve Jobs personally made the decision. The article has since been edited but AppleInsider has the original...
