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
Google Releases Google Earth for iPhone and iPod Touch
Google announced the release of an iPhone native version of their Google Earth application. With just a swipe of your finger you can fly from Peoria to Paris to Papua New Guinea, or anywhere in between. It may be small, but it brings all the power of Google Earth to the palm of your hand, including all of the same global imagery and 3D terrain. You can even browse any of our 8 million Panoramio...
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Apple Seeds Snow Leopard 10A190 (Mac OS X 10.6) to Developers
Apple has seeded a new version of Snow Leopard (Build 10A190) to developers this morning. Last night they had emailed ADC members that a preview build of Snow Leopard was made available to them, but the download links were not live until this morning.
Snow Leopard is the codename for the next major revision of Mac OS X. Apple has said that they would be focusing on quality and performance in ...
iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 2 Enables Street View
Apple has seeded iPhone 2.2 Firmware Beta 2 and has fully enabled Google Street View. We had previously reported that Beta 1 of iPhone 2.2 had hidden APIs related to the Street View for Google Maps, but was not enabled.
Apple seeded iPhone 2.2 Firmware Beta 2 to developers tonight. The seed notes also indicated that Line-in audio accessories are now supported in the SDK.
Update: iPhoneYap ...
New MacBook Pro Does Not Support 8GB RAM (for now)
Luke from iFixit.com was kind enough to test out a new NVIDIA-based MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM (two 4GB chips) to see if the earlier reports were true. NVIDIA representatives had stated that the new chipsets used in the MacBook and MacBook Pro could support up to 8GB of RAM. Previous generation MacBook Pros could only reliably support up to 4GB of memory.
Preliminary results show that...
Apple Publicly Opposes California Proposition 8 (Ban on Same Sex Marriage)
Apple has publicly posted in their HotNews feed that they are opposing a proposal (Proposition 8) that seeks to eliminate the right to same-sex marriage in the state of California. Apple has also donated $100,000 to the "No to 8" campaign: Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer...
Apple Patent Provides Peek at Snow Leopard Technologies
InformationWeek points out a few new Apple patent applications that were just published which describe technologies that will likely appear in Apple's Snow Leopard (10.6) operating system.
Snow Leopard promises to deliver improved Multi-Core processor and Mac graphics processor unit (GPU) support to applications. While all of Apple's Macs have moved to Multi-Core processors over the past...
Mac Mini Still Alive? New Model Coming?
MacMiniColo.net, an internet hosting company that has a vested interest in Apple's Mac mini computers, has published a "State of the Mac mini" report in which they claim that they have heard that a new Mac mini is on the way. Specifically, they believe (with some certainty) that it will gain the following specs:
- A new Mini DisplayPort
-...
Apple Posts Revised iPhone NDA Agreement and Readies iPhone 2.2 Beta 2 Firmware
Apple has posted a new iPhone developer agreement as previously promised. One of the developer agreements has been posted publicly, though another is only available to registered developers. The new agreement appears to...
Classics App Brings Stylish eBook Reading to iPhone
There's no shortage of ebook applications for the iPhone, with a tedious number of one-off individually packaged book applications found on the App Store.
A new eBook application called Classics takes it to the next level by incorporating a remarkably finished interface with custom bookcovers and 3d page-turning animations with the swipe of a finger:
The eBook application will be...
Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G21) to Developers
Apple has started developer seeding and testing of the next update to their Mac OS X operating system. Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G21) was seeded to developers this morning and offers the usual laundry list of bug fixes and improvements across a variety of services.
Trackpad Preferences on new MacBook Pro (10.5.5)
The new update appears to move notebook trackpad preferences into its own preference...
Intel Mobile Processors to be Refreshed in April? Nehalem Soon After
Recently leaked roadmaps from VR-Zone indicate that Intel will be updating their mobile processors in Q2 2009. Digitimes pinpoints the updates for April. The company will launch two processors along with the new platform, the Core 2 Duo T9900 and P8800.These new processors will top out at 3.06GHz and likely be suitable for use in Apple's notebook line. The current MacBook Pro tops out at...
MacBook Pro's NVIDIA Chipsets Can Support Dual GPU and 8GB RAM
Gizmodo spoke with NVIDIA representatives who confirmed a few interesting tidbits about the NVIDIA chipsets and GPUs that are found in the new MacBook Pro.
First of all, the new MacBook Pros are capable of switching from discrete to integrated GPUs "on-the-fly" without logging out. This should not come as much of a surprise, as there exists support for this real-time switching in Windows. So ...
Unannounced Apple Product Found in Web Logs?
A NYTimes blog article by John Markoff (via AppleInsider) claims that Apple may already be testing a netbook-sized device. Markoff recaps Jobs' statements from yesterday's financial conference but adds this tidbit in an update to the article: That would seem to confirm findings that a search engine company shared with me on condition that I not reveal its name: The company spotted Web visits from ...
iPhone Accounted for 39% of Apple Revenue in Q4 2008
During yesterday's conference call, Apple revealed that iPhone was responsible for 39% of the company's revenues in Q4 2008. Due to Apple's decision to report iPhone earnings as subscription revenue over 24 months, however, these numbers are not reflected in the $1.14 billion net profit and $7.9 billion in revenue reported yesterday. If they had been included, this would represent an additional ...
Apple Seeds QuickTime 7.6 to Developers, No H.264 Acceleration Yet
Apple seeded a new version of QuickTime 7.6 to developers yesterday. The latest build is available for Mac OS X and Windows and asks developers to test AAC encoding/playback, Multichannel encoding, Apple Lossless playback/encoding as well as MPEG-1 playback/encoding.
With recent news that the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros appear to have hardware based H.264 decoding, readers are going to be ...
Cooliris' Free 3D Wall Browser Now on iPhone [Updated]
Cooliris has released a free iPhone version [App Store] of their browser plug-in that allows users to browse and search through images and video on the web. Cooliris makes finding news and search results a breeze by displaying them as an endlessly streaming 3D Wall, complementing the touch screen perfectly.
Search across Google, Flickr, Yahoo and much...
App Store Reaches 200 Million Downloads
During the conference call yesterday, Steve Jobs revealed that the 200 millionth application would be downloaded from the App Store sometime today.
Apple previously revealed that the App Store had delivered over 100 million applications on September 9th. The most recent numbers suggest there has been an acceleration of downloads since that time.
Jobs gave no hints as to the revenue...
Jobs on Mac Netbooks: Not Yet, But...
Steve Jobs was present at today's financial results conference call and answered questions during the Q&A session.
One interesting topic that came up was questions about Apple's interest in the low-cost netbook category of platform. Jobs made it clear that Apple chooses not to target the low-cost...
Apple Reaches 10 Million iPhone Sales Goal for 2008
Apple has revealed that the company has met its self-imposed goal of selling 10 million iPhones in calendar 2008.
Steve Jobs first described the goal in January 2007 when he introduced the iPhone. The 10 million iPhone sales represented 1% of mobile phones sold at that time.
With today's financia...
Apple Reports $1.14 Billion Profit for Q4 2008
Apple announced their financial results today for the 4th quarter of fiscal 2008 . Apple posted revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion, or $1.26 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $6.22 billion and net quarterly profit of $904 million, or $1.01 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 34.7 percent, up from 33.6 percent in the...
