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
Is the iPod Classic Done? 10 Years of iPod
Guardian posts a retrospective piece about the original iPod and points out that the Classic iPod design has not been updated since late 2009. The iPod Classic, as the famous scroll-wheel design is now known, hasn't been updated now since September 2009, with a modest capacity jump from 120GB to 160GB. On the Apple Online Store, shipping times have slipped from 24 hours to 1-3 days. Across the...
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AT&T Cracking Down on Unauthorized Tethering
ModMyI and our forums have reported that some users are receiving notices from AT&T about unauthorized tethering. Tethering is the act of sharing your iPhone's 3G connection with another device. AT&T charges an additional fee for this activity.
Some users received the above SMS message with a followup email explaining tethering and warning them that tethering will be enabled if they...
NFC to Enable 'Home on iPhone' Remote Computing?
Cult of Mac claims to have some details of how Apple will take advantage of NFC (Near Field Communications) technology in their future mobile devices. Unfortunately, their source can't specify when Apple will introduce the technology, but their source confirms that Apple is working with several iPhone prototypes with NFC built in. But beyond the expected financial payment system, Cult of...
iPhone 5 May Get NFC Payments After All?
A Forbes blog by Elizabeth Woyke claims that despite recent rumors to the contrary, Near Field Communications (NFC) payment systems may indeed be coming to the iPhone 5.
Woyke's sources include second hand information from an entrepreneur in the NFC industry. From what I hear, it is possible the iPhone 5 will include NFC. An entrepreneur who is working on a top-secret NFC product told me...
Steve Jobs Offers Support to Apple Employees Affected by Earthquake
Photo of Apple Store in Sendai, Japan by naok
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is reported to have sent a message to Apple staff regarding the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The contents of the email were posted to Chihouban.com (via Mac Otakara), and MacRumors had also received a copy of it independently. The email was said to have been sent to all Apple...
Apple Airs 'If You Don't Have an iPhone' TV Ads
Apple has posted three new iPhone ads to their website and YouTube channel. The new ads start off with the phrase "If you don't have an iPhone" and demonstrate some specific features found on the iPhone. The three ads include:
- App Store (embedded above)
- iPod + iTunes
- iBooks
Each ad ends with "Yup, if you don't have an iPhone, ...
iPad 2 + Smart Cover = Refrigerator Magnet?
Steven let us know about his unique use for the iPad 2 Smart Cover. Try at your own...
MacUpdate Bundle: 11 Mac Apps for $49.99
A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacUpdate to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers at least 12 Mac applications for $49.99 (a $381 value if all purchased separately) including:
- Parallels Desktop 6 - Run Windows on your Mac without rebooting
- Divvy ($14) - Create custom workspaces on your screen
- 1Password ($39) - Easily manage website...
Video Walkthrough of Mac OS X Lion Developer Seed
News of Apple's Mac OS X Lion developer seed was quickly drowned out by Apple's launch of the new MacBook Pros and this week's iPad launch news. While there's no real new news on the Mac OS X Lion front, a few more videos have been posted on YouTube providing walkthroughs of many of the features found in Apple's upcoming Mac OS X.
This particular video (embedded above) posted this past...
Algoriddim's Djay Arrives on iPhone and iPod Touch
Back in November, we first previewed a version of Algoriddim's Djay for iPad which took advantage of the new iOS 4.2 firmware to provide a low latency DJ experience on your iPad. The company has just released an iPhone and iPod Touch version of the app that offers many of the same features as the iPad version. While some were quick to note that such a system wouldn't be used by DJ's in a...
Apple Approves Netflix and Kindle Updates Despite New In-App Purchase Rules [Update]
TechCrunch points out that Apple today approved updates to two major iOS applications that some had feared would be affected by the new in-app purchasing rules that Apple announced in February. The new rules required that any subscription based services must also provide the same service via the in-app purchase mechanism which is subject to Apple's 30% cut. Subscriptions purchased from within ...
Online iPad 2 Availability Pushed to 4-5 Weeks, First Deliveries Arrive
iPad 2 availability continues to get worse with Apple's online store citing 4-5 week ship times for new iPad 2 orders. Several Apple Retail stores are planning on opening early tomorrow to accommodate the continued high demand for the iPad. Based on what we've heard from readers,...
Apple Accepting Red Cross Donations on iTunes for Japanese Relief Efforts
Over the weekend, Apple has set up a donation system that allows iTunes customers to easily donate to the Red Cross' Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. The donation page is linked from the iTunes Store and can be accessed by following this link.
Donation amounts range from $5 to $200, and the entire amount is sent to the American Red Cross.
Apple set up a similar system last ...
No NFC Payment System in iPhone 5, Pushed to iPhone 6?
In January, Apple was rumored to be including NFC (Near Field Communication) hardware in the next generation iPhone and iPad to allow customers to use those devices to make purchases at retail stores.
Clearly, the iPad 2 was released without any NFC technology, and it seems now that the upcoming iPhone 5 won't be getting it either. According to a report from The Independent (via 9to5mac),...
Online iPad 2 Orders Begin to Ship
For those who ordered the iPad 2 from Apple's Online Store, the first orders have started shipping overnight. The early shipment notifications seem sporadic and are primarily of Wi-Fi and Verizon models. Readers are reporting on their ship notifications in our discussion forum. The earliest arrival for the first orders seems to...
iPad 2 Weekend: 70% Buyers New to iPad? Individual Resellers Ship Internationally
The iPad 2 launched on Friday to massive lines and quickly became sold out. Fortune reports on a surveys conducted by Piper Jaffray's Gene Muster surrounding the iPad 2 launch.
According to Munster's survey of 236 respondents in New York and Minneapolis lines, he found that 70% of iPad 2 buyers were new to the iPad. Assuming this survey can be generalized to the iPad 2 buying audience,...
Some iPhones with Daylight Savings Glitch?
Mashable reported that some iPhones were seeing a problem causing it to improperly adjust to daylight savings time in the U.S. Daylight saving time hits tonight/tomorrow morning, which means we all lose an hour of sleep unless you have a Verizon iPhone, in which case youll wake up utterly confused, as phones are currently falling back an hour.They originally pinpoint the problem to Verizon...
iPad 2: GPU Benchmarked with Impressive Gains
Anandtech has determined the iPad GPU to be the PowerVR SGX543MP2, a more advanced dual-core version of the PowerVR GPU found in the original iPad and iPhone 4. Architecturally the 543MP2 has more than twice the compute horsepower of the SGX 535 used in Apple's A4. Each shader pipeline can execute twice the number of instructions per clock as the SGX 535, and then there are four times as many...
iPads in Short Supply as Online Orders Pushed to 3-4 Weeks
iPad 2s arriving at Apple Store (thanks Caleb)
The iPad 2 launched to long lines on Friday and selling out in many locations. Based on reader reports, there are still pockets of stock in various locations, but a large number of locations are still sold out of the units. Part of the difficulty has been the large variety of models of the iPad 2 available. With 3 different storage...
Some Reports of Backlight Bleeding on iPad 2
Engadget points out that some iPad 2 owners are experiencing excessive levels of light bleeding or leaking out around the edges of the screen, most notable when viewing a dark image/video. This is not the same issue as the Yellowing seen on some screens that may go away with time.
MacRumors' own discussion forum has a lengthy...
