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 Firmware 2.0 Screenshots and Video
Hackintosh has posted some screenshots and a Youtube Video from the upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware. Visible changes include:
- Exchange Support
- Appstore
- Parental Controls
- SDK Support
- Calculator is more advanced
- CISCO VPN support
- Mail mass deletion
- No Spotlight Search icon in contacts
Apple has seeded the beta iPhone firmware to select enterprise customers and...
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CrazyKart 2 Game Preview for iPhone
Int13, a french mobile game developer, let us know that they had successfully started porting their Crazy Kart 2 game over to the iPhone.
- 320 * 320 pixels playing area
- Touch controls with a virtual steering wheel
- 3 vehicle classes (karts, motorbikes, hovercrafts)
- 6 characters with different vehicles
- Downloadable content (new vehicles, new tracks)
- Wifi online multiplayer...
iPhone SDK Downloaded Over 100,000 Times
Apple announced that the recently announced iPhone Software Developement Kit (SDK) has been downloaded over 100,000 times within the first four days of its launch. "Developer reaction to the iPhone SDK has been incredible with more than 100,000 downloads in the first four days," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Also, over one million people have...
iPhone Australia Coming Soon?
9to5mac points to a new job listing from Sensis, the search engine division of Telstra, Australia's largest mobile carrier.
Sensis is looking for an iPhone developer for their Australia-only search engine: Were looking for a BA with a technical front-end UI background to help us design cutting-edge search applications for the iPhone.9to5mac reasonably concludes that this is because the iPhone...
iPhone 2.0 Firmware Jailbroken Already?
The iPhone Dev Team published a a screenshot of what is reported to be a jailbroken iPhone 2.0 installation. According to ModMyiFone's sources, the Dev team has already jailbroken the beta 2.0 iPhone firmware that Apple has only released to a limited number of testers. The jailbroken iPhone freely allows installation of iPhone applications, bypassing Apple's $99/year developer program which...
Improve iPhone's 'Locate Me' Accuracy
Apple posted a Knowledge Base article points to this SkyHook Wireless page that allows you to enter corrections to Skyhook's wifi mapping.
Skyhook provides the GPS-like location features in the iPhone and iPod Touch. It accomplishes this by a combination of Wifi and Cellular tower locations. To seed their database, Skyhook sent out teams of drivers to correlate hotspot locations with their...
Microsoft Updates Office 2008 to 12.0.1
Microsoft has released an update to their Office 2008 suite for the Mac. The update is listed as "critical": This update fixes critical issues in Office 2008, including issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly.
Microsoft Office 2008 was released at this year's Macworld San Franciso in January, and provided native support for Intel Macs for the first ...
Apple to Track iPhone Gaming High Scores?
With on-stage demos of EA's Spore and Sega's Super Monkey Ball (demo video) at their iPhone Software Development Kit event, Apple seems to be serious about mobile gaming on the iPhone. Earlier reports also hinted at this commitment with Apple previously extending their trademark to include handheld gaming devices.
Now, a look back at an Apple patent application entitled "Media management...
Casting for iPhone 2 Ad?
Appleinsider claims that a Craigslist casting call for an "iPhone 2" commercial was posted over the weekend, but subsequently removed. The listing, which is no longer accessible from the site, sought several specific model types to play different characters in the ad, with filming slated for March 23 - 24 in Los Angeles, Calif. The site speculates that it may have been at the request of Apple's ad ...
Intel Entering Solid State Drive Market
CNet reports that Intel is entering the Solid State Drive (SSD) market later this year to compete against existing suppliers such as Samsung, Toshiba, and SanDisk. Up to this point Intel has only offered small-capacity products up to 16GB in size. In Q2, Intel will be introducing 80GB and 160GB 1.8 and 2.5-inch SSDs aimed at the laptop market. Intel also promises significant performance gains...
Beatles on iTunes? Maybe Not Yet...
We previously reported on Page 2 about reports that Paul McCartney has reached a $400 million agreement with iTunes for the distribution of the Beatles' back catalog.
Word spread quickly about the imminent deal, but today, Apple actually denied the claim according to Billboard: "This is not news nor is it a scoop," says an Apple Inc. spokesman, declining further comment.
Rumors of the Beatles...
RIM's BlackBerry vs iPhone's ActiveSync
When Apple announced that the iPhone would incorporate Exchange support through ActiveSync, they specifically pointed out some shortcomings of RIM's server-based system. In the following Question and Answer session, Jobs even pointed to potential security issues with RIM's model: "Every e-mail message sent to or from a RIM device, goes through a NOC up in Canada. Now, that provides a single point ...
Lionsgate Adding iTunes Digital Copy on DVD and Blu-ray Discs
Lionsgate announced that they are working with Apple to provide iTunes Digital Copies on select DVD and Blu-ray releases. Just like movies purchased from the iTunes Store, an iTunes Digital Copy can effortlessly be transferred to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod with video, iPhone or on widescreen television with Apple TV.
The first Liongate DVD/Blu-ray disc to include an iTunes...
Apple in Talks with Sony about Blu-ray Drives
Financial Times reported that in the wake of Sony's Blu-ray win over HD-DVD, that Sony is in talks with both Microsoft and Apple about inclusion of Blu-ray with future machines. Microsoft had previously been shipping an HD-DVD accessory for their Xbox 360, so their adoption of Blu-ray would represent a significant turnaround.
Apple, however, has not yet shipped any high definition drives...
Search Contacts in iPhone 2.0?
Blargkaboom points out that in one of the demo screenshots during the iPhone SDK event showed off a new search icon in the Contacts application.
This search icon is not available on the current version of the iPhone firmware. At present, users can only slide their finger down the alphabet to scroll quickly through their contact list, and can not search for specific names.
Hopefully the ...
Multitouch on the iPhone Simulator, No Open GL
Forum member, arkmannj, discovered how to emulate multi-touch in the iPhone Simulator that accompanies the iPhone SDK.
- Option-Click: Allows you to pinch in and out, and rotate.
- Option-Shift-Click: Allows you to perform a two finger drag.
Meanwhile, we've heard that OpenGL is not supported on the iPhone Simulator, which means developers working on OpenGL applications will have to...
Apple iPhone SDK Roadmap Podcast on iTunes
Apple has posted (iTunes link) a video podcast version of the March 6th Apple iPhone SDK event. With this version, you can download it and watch it on your iPod, iPhone or Apple TV.
The 1 hour and 18 minute event details Apple's plans for enterprise and 3rd party applications on the iPhone.
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iPhone SDK Limitations: Multitasking, Java, Emulators
As people delve into the details of Apple's iPhone SDK, a few interesting issues are emerging. One developer guideline that is generating some concern is from Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for iPhone: Only one iPhone application can run at a time, and third-party applications never run in the background. This means that when users switch to another application, answer the phone, or check...
Run Windows on the iPhone with iEmulator Touch
iEmulator announced that they are developing a PC emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch. "Apple's new iPhone and iPod Touch software development kit is allowing us to quickly port iEmulator to these innovative devices," he went on to say. "It's an amazing development and operating environment."iEmulator.com has a bit of a head start, as they currently offer a PC emulator for Mac OS X. The...
Sun Bringing Java to iPhone
Sun announced that they are developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone with the newly released Software Development Kit (SDK). "We're going to make sure that the JVM offers the Java applications as much access to the native functionality of the iPhone as possible," he said.
The specific version of Java will be based on the Java Micro Edition (ME) and will open the iPhone to a large...
