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
According to Jobs: No iPhone-to-iPad Tethering, 10 Hour Battery Life Reaffirmed
Swedish site Slashat.se reportedly emailed Steve Jobs asking the simple question "Will the wifi-only version somehow support tethering thru my iPhone?" Steve Jobs' reply was a simple "no" and was sent from his iPhone.
Tethering is the process by which you can share an internet connection from a cellular device (such as the iPhone) to a non cellular device such as a notebook, or in this case ...
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Apple Seeking to Stimulate Mac Development With $99 Mac Dev Program
After a brief outage on Thursday, Apple's developer site returned with a dramatically restructured developer program for the Mac that is modeled after the $99/year iPhone developer program: "Modeled after the highly successful iPhone Developer Program, we've relaunched the Mac Developer Program to offer members...
The Significance of Steam and Valve's Games for Mac
Earlier today, Valve Software released teaser images which indicated that their Steam platform as well as a number of their games would be coming to the Mac.
For those unfamiliar with this currently PC-only software, Steam is a digital distribution system for PC games. Essentially, a PC game App Store. The Steam storefront allows users to purchase from over 1000 titles and download them...
Apple iPad to Go on Sale Friday March 26th?
iPhone line photo by goodrob13
While Apple announced that the iPad would go on sale at the end of March, we've yet to hear official details about the actual sale date and procedure.
We have heard whispers the Apple is planning on launching the iPad at retail stores on Friday, March 26th at 6 p.m. in similar fashion to the original iPhone launch.
A blog post from the Examiner now...
Apple to Stream Video As Well as Music and TV from 'the Cloud'?
CNet reports that Apple's plans for cloud computing could go well beyond music. Apple is said to have been in negotiations with some of the major film studios to offer streaming video service to users. Apple has told the studios that under the plan, iTunes users will access video from various Internet-connected devices. Apple would, of course, prefer that users access video from the iPad, the...
Apple's A4 Processor is Based on Cortex A8, Not A9?
Ars Technica reports on Apple's new A4 chip which was introduced alongside the iPad in January. Apple has released few details about their custom chip design, though many expected it to have adopted the latest Cortex A9 multi-core design.
Ars Technica's Jon Stokes counters this belief with multiple sources who indicate the new processor is actually based on the Cortex A8 -- the same design...
Valve's Steam Heading to the Mac?
A forum thread has been generating some buzz around the Mac web by suggesting that Valve will be porting their Steam platform to the Mac. Steam is a digital distribution system for PC games -- essentially an PC game App Store. A Mac version of the store would still require games to be ported over to the Mac platform...
A Multi-Touch iPhone OS Layer On Top of Mac OS X?
In a NYTimes' blog post, Nick Bilton describes how PCs aren't as easy to use as the iPhone, and explores why the iPhone OS simply can't be used in a future iteration of Mac OS X.
Bilton quotes a former senior Apple engineer who explains that implementing global multi-touch support onto the existing Mac OS X would be a hard task. While Apple has added multi-touch features into a few apps, the...
Shape Recognition on a Touch Sensitive iMac Screen?
Apple's patent applications always generate a lot of interest as they are one of the few windows we have into the company's research and development labs. Some patent applications are more interesting or relevant than others, but we knew this latest one would generate some buzz as it actually depicts an old-style iMac with a touch screen (above).
This Patent application is called Shape...
Another Week, Another Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D561) Seed For Developers
There isn't much more to say about these Mac OS X seeds, except that Apple is still at it. Tonight, Apple delivered Mac OS X 10.6.3 Build 10D561 for developers. iPhone Canada details the changes listed, which haven't changed much since the previous build.
Given the rapid release sequence to the seeds, we still expect Apple to be releasing 10.6.3 to end users shortly. 10.6.3 is primarily a...
MacRumors Turns 10 Years Old Today
Today marks MacRumors.com's 10 year anniversary. It's a shocking realization that I've been doing this now for a decade. For those unfamiliar with the history of the site, I started it as a hobby back in early 2000 as a place to consolidate interesting news and rumors about Apple. I was finishing my 4th year of medical school at the time and kept the site running as I completed my medical...
iPad SDK Support for Front Facing Camera, Camera Flash, Zoom and Video Conferencing
Unfortunately, we already know how this story ends. Apple introduced the iPad in late January and made no mention of a camera - either on the front or back of the device. So that means no video conferencing or even photos are possible on the first generation device.... and yet, it seems like they had everything in place for it already. For example, the enclosure has an empty space for the...
Apple Confirms: iPad Uses PowerVR SGX Graphics Hardware
While this shouldn't be much of a surprise to most, Apple has confirmed that the iPad uses the same family of graphics chip as the iPhone and iPod Touch. According to reports, Apple's latest iPad SDK Beta 3 documentation confirms this, though falls of short of detailing exactly which chip it is: Using OpenGL ES on iPad is identical to using OpenGL ES on other iPhone OS devices. An iPad is a...
'MacBook Pro 2010' RAM Modules Spotted?
ThesMac.gr (translation) claims that they have spotted evidence of new memory modules marketed for the upcoming "MacBook Pro 2010".
The site doesn't list the source for the image, though a quick search...
Phil Schiller Acknowledges New App Store Sexual Content Ban and Exceptions
The NY Times reports on Apple's new policy blocking overtly sexual apps. Apple's head of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller explained the reasoning behind the decision, citing an increasing number of apps with objectionable content: "It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the...
iPhone Game Developer Ngmoco Acquires Freeverse
TechCrunch reports that iPhone game developer has secured $25 million more in venture capital funding and has also acquired Freeverse for an unspecified price.
Freeverse began as a Mac shareware company in 1994 and has since expanded to other platforms. Their iPhone division has been particularly successful with a number of top hits including Skee-ball, Flick Fishing and Days of Thunder. ...
New iPhone Ads: 'On Hold' and 'First Steps'
Apple has posted two new iPhone ads on their website.
- First Steps - a woman narrator discusses how she used her iPhone to capture video of her child's first steps and shared them with her family.
- On Hold - the narrator talks about how he doesn't mind being on hold because he can check his email, pay his bills and download games from the App Store.
Thanks Macduke...
Apple's iPad NYTimes Promo Video Shows Flash Again [Updated]
Flash content shown (left), Broken plug-in shown (right)
We're planning on writing this one off as a web-blunder, but one reader points out that Apple seems to have reverted their iPad promotional video back to one which renders the NYTimes Flash content correctly.
The iPad promotional video caused a lot of buzz when it was discovered that it depicted properly working Flash content on...
Over 5000 'Overtly Sexual' Apps Pulled from App Store (And Counting)
Late last week, the news broke that Apple was removing "overtly sexual" applications from the App Store. The list of applications that have been removed have not only included novelty apps and adult themed slideshow apps, but also a number of games including Daisy Mae's Alien Buffet. This graph provided by AppShopper.com shows that on a typical day, about 100 apps are removed from the U.S....
Evidence of Video Conferencing Rediscovered in iPad 3.2 SDK
9to5Mac rediscovers evidence that the iPad 3.2 SDK shows hints of video conferencing. This was first discovered shortly after the SDK's release in January: We're told that there are hooks to accept and decline a video conference, flip a video feed (which suggests a front-facing camera) and -- most importantly -- run the video call in either full screen mode or in just a portion of the screen....
