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
Blu-ray Licensing to Get Easier and Cheaper
AlleyInsider speculates that licensing changes to Blu-Ray could pave the way to Mac support for the High Definition drives. A new licence will be established by mid-2009 as a "one-stop shop" for device makers. The licence will include all necessary Blu-ray, DVD and CD patents for selling Blu-ray players. The licensing programme will be handled by a new licensing company to be led by Gerald...
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Apple Removes Old Non-Customer Reviews from App Store
When Apple first opened the App Store back in July 2008, their review system allowed anyone to enter a comment or review on any application. No purchase was required at that time. As a result, many critical "reviews" came from those who had never bought those applications. Developers, of course, were particularly unhappy with this system which brought down the average score for almost all paid ...
Practicality of Multi-Touch and an Early PowerBook Multi-Touch Keyboard Design
Here at MacRumors, we have had a fascination about the possibility of Apple introducing more advanced Multi-Touch technology into their future Macs and keyboards. This conversation, however, always returns to the question of the practicality and usefulness of this technology.
Looking back at the early days of FingerWorks, it seems that many of these questions had been addressed....
Safari 4 Tips, Tricks and Special Effects
The release of the Safari 4 Beta yesterday has generated a massive number of comments. Here are a few interesting tips, tricks and observations.
CNet benchmarked Safari 4's Javascript and found it to be 42x faster than IE 7, 6x faster than IE 8 and the fastest compared to any browser:
Javascript is a key scripting language that is heavily used in interactive websites such as GMail and Mob...
Happy Birthday to MacRumors and Steve Jobs
Today marks the ninth birthday of the MacRumors.com website. It also happens to be the 54th birthday of Apple's cofounder Steve Jobs. We wish Steve Jobs well on his birthday.
MacRumors is the largest Apple-focused online community with over 6 million unique visitors and 36 million page views each month. Thanks to our readers, contributors, sponsors, and all those for whom MacRumors is an...
Apple Announces Safari 4 Public Beta
Apple announced a public beta of Safari 4 today with the "Nitro" engine that runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. "Apple created Safari to bring innovation, speed and open standards back into web browsers, and today it takes another big step forward," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Safari 4 is the fastest and most efficient browser...
DoubleTwist Beta for Mac Offers Easy Media Browsing and Sharing
Startup company doubleTwist has launched a public beta of their new universal media application for the Mac today. Their vision for the product is "a single, streamlined interface that connects to any device, media source or network." In many ways, they seem to have taken some cues from Apple's iTunes and iLife suite but are taking it to the next level in both functionality and ease of use.
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New NVIDIA-based iMacs Imminent? More Hints.
Over the past week, there have been an increasing number hints that the long-awaited iMac revisions are indeed imminent. Resellers have had low stocks of iMacs and educational Apple sales reps have been authorized to give special pricing on the current iMacs.
One image sent to us even claims that new Apple marketing materials describe the new iMacs with "High-performance NVIDIA graphics":
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Screenshots of Latest Snow Leopard Seed
World of Apple publishes screenshots from the latest Snow Leopard developer seed.
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Video of 'Leaked' Next-Gen Mac Mini?
The original forum poster has now offered up a video of the purported next-generation Mac mini.
The video is labeled "Mac Mini 2009 Edition". We have little other information as to its legitimacy and the story sounds sketchy, but present the video for interest and followup to yesterday's story....
Leaked Photo of the Next-Generation Mac Mini?
A possible image of the next generation Mac Mini was first posted to a MacRumors forum discussion thread. The image depicts what could be the next Mac mini.
The original leaker also claimed the following specs:
- Intel Core 2 Duo
- 2GHz
- 3MB L2 cache
- 2GB RAM DDR III, 1066MHz
- Super Drive is SATA
The port configuration is consistent with previous rumors that the new Mac mini...
Apple Discontinues 20" Cinema Display, Product Refreshes Coming?
Apple has removed the 20" Cinema Display from the online Apple Store and has notified resellers that the product has been "end of life'd" and can no longer be ordered.
While it may be possible that Apple has simply chosen to stop offering a 20" model, it seems more likely that they are preparing to release a new LED-based 20" Display with the new Mini DisplayPort introduced in October....
Turn-By-Turn iPhone GPS App Already Available in iTunes
It seems despite all the anticipation about Turn-by-Turn GPS routing for the iPhone, an App already exists in the App Store that delivers this basic functionality.
XRoad Co.'s G-Map U.S. West and G-Map U.S. East apps were released into the App Store back in October and January, respectively. The G-Map application is the first on-board GPS navigation solution to be made available for iPhone...
Notes from MWC: Copying iPhone, Offline Gmail, Turn by Turn GPS for iPhone
Mobile World Congress 2009 took place this week in Barcelona, Spain bringing together the major players of the mobile phone industry. While Apple chose not to attend, a lot of the talk still surrounded Apple's iPhone. Here are a few notes of interest to come out of the conference.
- Apple's iPhone seemed to take center stage during a panel discussion with CEOs from Microsoft, Nokia and AT&T. ...
Apple's Multi-Touch Designer Describes His Inspiration, More to Come?
Wayne Westerman and John Elias are the two engineers who are responsible for much of Apple's multi-touch technology found in the iPhone and notebook trackpads. Westerman and Elias originally founded a company called Fingerworks in 1998 and developed a number of multi-touch input devices including keyboards and touch-pads. Apple then acquired Fingerworks in 2005 and Westerman has been a senior...
Evangelion Anime Franchise Coming to App Store
Appliya announced that they have obtained a license to develop and distribute iPhone and iPod Touch apps based on the popular anime francise, Evangelion. Neon Genesis Evangelion first aired on Japanese television in 1995, and then went on to become a multi-billion dollar international anime franchise. The story is getting a modern upgrade with the new Rebuild of Evangelion project, a series of...
17" MacBook Pro Disassembly, RAM, HD and Battery Access
iFixit has already posted disassembly photos of the new 17" unibody MacBook Pro that has started arriving in customers hands. iFixit's disassembly guides are always very educational but also incredibly useful for your own repairs or modifications.
The 17" MacBook Pro was announced at Macworld San Francisco and incorporates Apple's new unibody design but with a non-removable battery....
Tim Cook: 'Ideas' for a Netbook, iPhone Price Changes, iMacs?
Macworld.co.uk relays (via MacBlogz) a report by Sanford C. Bernstein & Co analyst Toni Sacconaghi who recently met with Apple's acting CEO Tim Cook.
According to Sacconaghi, Cook hinted at "ideas" for an Apple netbook as well as iPhone price changes: "Tim Cook stated that since Steve Jobs announced his leave of absence, he was spending more time on new products, how Apple could take the...
Microsoft, Symbian and Others Announce 'App Stores'
Fortune notes a string of announcements coming out of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona where it seems mobile app stores are on everyone's mind. DeWitt summarizes the headlines and notes that "now everyone has an App Store": - Nokia's Ovi Store. An online app and media portal that comes "pre-integrated" on Nokia's (NOK) new N97 (right), but will be available for download on a slew of existing...
Steve Jobs Writing an Autobiography?
Valleyway claims that Steve jobs may have started writing his autobiography. "Steve Jobs has started writing a book," a plugged-in tipster tells me. It's the barest of rumors, but the book industry is already eagerly anticipating the Apple CEO's autobiography.Jobs recently took leave from Apple due to medical reasons and expects to return in June. In order to take myself out of the limelight and...
