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
iPhone 3G Selling Twice as Fast as Original
AlleyInsider reports on AT&T's Q2 financial results. AT&T posted $30.9 billion in revenue, up 4.7% year-over-year.
In Apple related news, AT&T revealed that despite ongoing iPhone shortages, the iPhone 3G sales are nearly double that of the first iPhone. The Apple iPhone 3G is a dramatic example of this transformation, Stephenson added. In the days following our exclusive U.S. launch of this ...
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Voice Recognition for Mobile Websites
Appleinsider points us to an AT&T Research project called Watson. The goal of Watson is to provide speech processing capabilities as a web service. At AT&T we extended this successful paradigm with speech processing capabilities and created the AT&T WATSON Speech Mashups - a new...
New iPod Nanos to be Multicolored?
9to5mac claims to have heard from reliable sources that this years iPod nano revision will be individually multicolored. While the iPod nano currently comes in a number of solid colors, 9to5mac expects the new ones to contain multiple colors within the same units. It's not clear in what pattern or which colors Apple will use.
The site also...
Apple Updates iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb and iLife
Apple has issued updates to their iLife suite of applications, including iPhoto and iMovie today. The updates are presently available through your Mac OS X Software Update: iPhoto Update 7.1.4 (74 MB)
This update contains new holiday greeting card and postcard themes for use with Apple print products. It also addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a...
Apple to Drop Prices of Notebooks?
Investment bank Piper Jaffray issued a note today based on Apple's future outlook in 2008 and 2009. During their financial conference call, Apple told investors that they expect the company's gross margins will by down to 31.5% (from 34.8%) in Q4 2008 with expectations of further declines...
WordPress iPhone App Released
Apple has approved and released the WordPress [App Store] application into the iTunes App Store today. The WordPress app allows blog publishers to update their site through a native iPhone application.
- Support for WordPress.com blogs and self-installed WordPress blogs (version 2.5.1 and higher)
- Full support for tags and categories
- Photo support for both camera pics and library...
MacBook Touch?
MacDailyNews republishes an unconfirmed rumor submission about what Apple might be up to for later this year. Think MacBook screen, possibly a bit smaller, in glass with iPhone-like, but fuller-featured Multi-Touch. Gesture library. Full Mac OS X. This is why they bought P.A. Semi....
GPU Powered Macs and iPhones
Architosh points us to a Guardian.co.uk article from last week which details the upcoming trend of using GPUs (graphics processors) for day to day computing. As they point out, if you have a computer with either an ATI or nVidia graphics card, chances are you have more than 100 microprocessor cores waiting for use. While ...
HP Delivers Printer Driver Update via Software Update
HP delivered new printer drivers (version 1.1) to Mac OS X users last week via Software Update. The 405.1MB download is only available if an HP printer is connected to your system. It includes "the latest drivers for printers you have used on your system."
Apple has started delivering updates to 3rd party printer drivers in the recent past with Brother and Canon updates similarly released in ...
Apple Hints at a 'Product Transition' and a New Product Soon?
Apple's financial results conference call today was littered with references to future products coming from Apple. While some degree of optimism ("very excited about future") is the norm during these financial results calls, there was more discussion than usual about possible new products in today's results.
Steve Jobs first suggests in the initial press release that Apple is "busy finishing ...
Apple Announces $1.07 Billion in Profit for Q3 2008
Apple announced their 3rd Quarter 2008 Financial Results today. Apple posted revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion (or $1.19 per diluted share). This compares favorably to revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 million (or $.92 per diluted share) in the year-ago quarter. Apple shipped 2,496,000 Macintosh computers and 11,011,000 iPods this...
Jailbreaking Allows Users to Tether the iPhone 3G to their Laptops
Cre.ations.net posts a step-by-step guide on how to tether your iPhone 3G to your laptop.
The process of tethering allows your laptop to use your iPhone's 3G internet connection, avoiding the need to find separate internet connectivity for your laptop. Tethering, of course, is against...
Ad Supported iPhone Games Coming Soon
TechCrunch is reporting that Greystripe, an advertising network for mobile games, will be offering their services to iPhone developers.
Since 2006, Greystripe has distributed free games and apps to over 1,400 different mobile handset models and currently offers a catalog of 800 games. Greystripe allows developers to add pre-roll (before), interstitial, and post-roll (after) ads for use in...
Some MobileMe Users Still Without Email
CNN Money reports that some MobileMe customers are still without email service. The Cupertino, Calif., company has been migrating its .Mac pay email service to an upgraded version, called MobileMe. But in doing so, it has run into problems including service outages and customers losing...
Snow Leopard to Provide Icon-Level Previews
AppleInsider reports that the preview version of Snow Leopard provides users with a quick way to review audio files within Finder: One person familiar with the pre-release software notes that hovering the mouse pointer over an audio file in Snow Leopard's Finder will trigger a triangular 'play' button to appear on the icon itself. Clicking the button will allow the audio file to play within the ...
WordPress App for iPhone Coming Soon
Macenstein notes that WordPress's native iPhone App is "In Review" by Apple. We have not been provided with an ETA, write Raanan, so it could get approved at any time. Check out the below video to see the iPhone WordPress client in action.
The WordPress iPhone App will allow publishers to publish and edit their WordPress-powered...
MacBook Pro NVIDIA Chips Affected Too by Failures?
The Inquirer speculates that all G84 and G86 graphics chips are affected by the GPU failures announced by NVIDIA earlier this month.
According to NVIDIA a significant quantity of NVIDIA chips have been failing at higher than normal rates but has not yet provided a breakdown of...
iPhone Remains Effectively Sold Out in U.S.
MacNN reports that a survey of Apple's iPhone availability tool shows that the iPhone 3G is effectively sold out across the country.
Only 3 stores appear to have any stock for Monday morning. Apple notes that on Monday none of its 137 locations in the US will have stock of the 8GB iPhone and that the only location to have the 16GB black iPhone will be its retail store in Pleasanton,...
Apple's Earnings Results to Focus on Mac (and iPod)
Bloomberg reports that Apple's earnings report later today will focus on Mac and iPod sales which make up for 75% of the company's revenue. Despite the prominent iPhone 3G launch last week, those sales fall outside the reporting window for today's earnings. In addition, the supplies of iPhones that were...
Full Time on MacRumors.com
Though it's not been a secret, a NYTimes article has prominently outed the fact that I have quit my job as a physician in order to continue to work on MacRumors and other web projects full time.
As the article reveals, MacRumors has been a hobby and perhaps a passion of mine for the past 8 years. As I had said in the...
