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
Developers Get First Monthly Sales Report for Apps
iPhone and iPod Touch developers have received their first full month of iPhone sales reports from Apple. Prior to this Apple had started providing developers with daily stats, but only since approximately July 31st. Stats for the lucrative first two weeks had remained a mystery to most small developers.
With the release of the monthly stats, developers now have access to all their sales for ...
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iPod Touch and MacBook Updates for September?
A new analyst report from Piper Jaffray claims that Apple's September announcement will reveal a new iPod Touch and new MacBooks.
Analyst Mike Olson predicts that the iPod Touch will be tweaked to resemble Apple's new iPhone 3G and also raises the possibility of price drops and/or capacity increases. Recent Firmware hints have suggested the iPod Touch could see feature upgrades as well. The ...
September Event to Introduce iPod Updates and More?
Last week an analyst report speculated that Apple would hold some sort of media event this September to refresh the iPod line as well as introduce updates to both the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines.
While the report appeared to be mostly speculative, Apple has been predictably updating their iPods in September for the past couple of years. Combined with circulating rumors of iPod revisions...
Top Free iPhone Apps Generate About 80,000 Downloads a Day
Illusion Labs, the makers of the popular free application Labyrinth Lite [App Store], was profiled in BusinessWeek. Illusion Labs started off as a developer for jailbroken iPhones and has since made the transition to the App Store.
Their free version of Labyrinth recently hit the number one spot in the...
MotionX's Free Dice App a 'Must Get'
MotionX has released a free app called MotionX Dice [App Store]. The free dice application provides you with five dice that can be rolled by simply shaking your iPhone. The physics and visualizations serve as the basis for their $4.99 game MotionX Poker [App Store].
The $4.99 Poker game uses the same...
Frommer's Introduces Travel Guide iPhone Apps
Frommer's announced today that they have released version of their popular travel guides to the iTunes App Store. The initial release includes 2008 editions of Frommer's New York [App Store], San Francisco [App Store], London [App Store] and Paris [App Store]. Each are available for $9.99. The fresh and innovative digital editions of the trusted print books will be locally stored on iPhones...
Analyst Believes 3 Million iPhones Sold in First Month
One analyst believes that Apple has hit the 3 million mark in iPhones sold in the first month since its debut. "They are seeing unprecedented demand," says Cote, adding that there appears to be no signs of a let up yet. Cote, a former T-Mobile executive, has been extremely accurate with wireless predictions in the past.Apple had previously announced they had sold 1 million iPhone 3Gs in the first...
Apple to Add Dedicated Video Hardware to Macs?
AlleyInsider publishes an unconfirmed rumor that Apple will be incorporating QuickTime encoding/decoding chips into their products in the coming months. AlleyInsider's Dan Frommer describes it as "pure speculation" but felt it plausible enough to publish for discussion. Our understanding is that a QuickTime encoding/decoding chip would handle the grunt work of processing video, presumably in the ...
RunKeeper for iPhone: a GPS-based Training Assistant
Podophile notes that RunKeeper [App Store], a $9.99 training assistant, has been posted to the App Store. RunKeeper allows you to track your running or biking by keeping GPS track of:
- Run duration
- Distance
- Pace
- SpeedDue to the GPS requirement, the app will only work on the 3G iPhone. A video demo is available from the developers.
...
Jobs: $30 Million App Store Sales in First Month, Confirms Kill Switch
In an interview with Steve Jobs, The Wall Street Journal reports that the iTunes App Store has delivered over 60 million programs to customers over the course of the first month. While most of those applications were free, Jobs does reveal that Apple has sold an average of $1 million a day in applications for a total of $30 million in sales over the first month. Jobs says he's "never seen...
Intel Officially Brands Nehalem as 'Core i7' Processor
Intel has announced that the upcoming Nehalem processor will be officially known as the Core i7.
Nehalem has been the code name for Intel's upcoming processors first due in Q4 2008. Nehalem represents a major overhaul of Intel's processor technology and introduces a number of improvements over existing process bottlenecks.
Intel's choice of name seems to be arbitrary but will reportedly...
Only 6 People Intended to Buy 'I Am Rich'
NYTimes provides some followup details on Armin Heinrich's I Am Rich application that sold for $999.99 and simply displayed a red gem on the iPhone's screen.
An earlier report from the developer had indicated that 8 people had bought the app.
NYTimes reports that Heinrich has been notified by Apple that two of the eight sales had been reversed since they had been purchased by mistake....
GTS World Racing Game for iPhone
Another racing game has found its way to the iPhone in the form of Astraware's GTS World Racing [$7.99, App Store]. The racing title promises to bring a more traditional arcade-style racing title to the iPhone, complete with 16 locations, 64 different track layouts and 3 different car types to chose from. The tilt-controlled racer also offers four different play modes and four difficulty...
Nehalem Officially Named 'Core i7'?
Expreview clams that Intel will be officially announcing that the Nehalem processors will be known as the "Core i7" on August 11th.
Nehalem is Intel's next generation processor that is expected to launch in Q4...
T-Mobile to Launch App Store?
Moconews.net reports that according to "multiple sources", T-Mobile is planning to launch an app store across their entire lineup of phones. Think of *Apples* App store, but for the entire carriers handset line-up from smartphone to feature phone. As one developer, who was briefed on the matter, said: The App store was a big deal, but thats one phone. This is an entire carrier.According to Moconew...
Apple Releases iPhone Firmware 2.1 Beta 3
Apple has released Beta 3 of the iPhone 2.1 firmware. The new update consists of more bug fixes. iPhone 2.1 firmware offers some developers an early look at the next iPhone firmware with early support for background notificatoins.
Apple last seeded the second beta on July...
NetShare Unlikely to Return to U.S. App Store
Despite some early assurances, it appears that Nullriver's NetShare application may not return to the U.S. App Store at all. NetShare was an iPhone application that appeared briefly in the iTunes App Store before its removal. The application allowed users to share their iPhone's cellular internet...
pTerm (SSH, Telnet Client) for iPhone
Instant Cocoa has released pTerm [$4.99, App Store] an SSH, Telnet and raw TCP client for your iPhone or iPod Touch. The application is based on the popular desktop client PuTTY.
Features include
- SSH, Telnet, and Raw Socket (TCP) support
- xterm terminal emulation
- 80x24 standard unix terminal window
- Pinch to zoom in the terminal
- Landscape and Portrait modes
- Support for...
ZFS (and Snow Leopard) to Speed up Solid State Drive Performance?
Infoworld reports (via MacsimumNews) that Samsung has been working with developers to boost solid state drive (SSD) performance in operating systems. Samsung announced Wednesday that it has been in talks with Microsoft to boost performance in Windows: The speed and way in which SSDs fetch and cache data are different than hard drives, said Michael Yang, flash marketing manager at Sun. Samsung...
ProRemote Offers Wireless Multi-Touch Remote for ProTools and Logic
Far Out Labs has released their ProRemote Light [$39.99, App Store] and ProRemote [$149.99, App Store] applications to the iTunes App Store. ProRemote is a product that runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch that uses your existing wireless network to control professional audio products such as Digidesigns ProTools and Apples Logic Music production systems.
The full version of ProRemote also...
