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
Ambrosia Offers Six Game Mac Bundle for $19
Last week, Ambrosia announced that they were holding a holiday bundle sale for six of their Mac games for only $19.
Apeiron X - Arcade-style, fast-paced, frantic gameplay. You versus the nefarious Pentipede and other mushroom patch baddies.
Redline - Put the pedal to the metal in this intense 3D racing game. Hop in and burn rubber through myriad race tracks across the Web.
Bubble Trouble X...
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iPhone Nano Concept Photo?
It seems the "iPhone Nano" is the rumor that is going take the spotlight ahead of this year's Macworld, and while MacRumors is publishing these photos and rumors, we have some serious doubts about the likelihood of such a device. These doubts are based both in the quality of the sources as well as the practicality of introducing a new form factor to the iPhone/iPod Touch platform.
This image, ...
More Hints of an 'iPhone Nano' from Case Manufacturers
iPhone case manufacturer XSKN has labeled a section on their site for the "iPhone Nano". This description suggests that long running rumors of a miniaturized iPhone could be true.
XSKN gained some notoriety earlier this year when it began selling cases for the then-unreleased iPhone 3G. The company again received headlines in September with case images of unreleased 4th Generation iPod...
Fake Mac Mini Images Circulate
The fake images have started circulating.
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Evidence that Next iMacs and Mac Minis to use NVIDIA Chipsets
Configuration files buried within some versions of Mac OS X show evidence that the next iMac and Mac Mini will indeed be based on the NVIDIA MCP79 chipset. Apple recently switched their MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models to the NVIDIA chipsets in October. Amongst other benefits, the new notebooks have much improved graphics card capabilities, which make them more suitable to take...
Apple Acknowledges 10.5.6 'Configuring Installation' Issue
Apple released a technote detailing an issue that some users have run into while installing the latest Mac OS X Software Update. When attempting to update software using Software Update in Mac OS X 10.5, the update process may stop responding while "Configuring installation" is visible in the update window.Apple describes that this may happen when...
BBC iPlayer Now Available for Mac
BBC announced that a version of the iPlayer that works on the Mac and Linux computers is now available. The iPlayer is the BBC's online media player that lets viewers stream programmes for up to seven days after broadcast or download and watch them for up to 30 days.While streaming had previously been available to Mac users, downloading had not. When the...
Schiller to Demo Snow Leopard at Macworld?
The Guardian claims that Apple and its partners have been privately dropping hints to developers that Mac OS X Snow Leopard will ship earlier than expected and suggests that Phil Schiller will show it off at Macworld.
The article also recaps the advantages of both Grand Central and OpenCL which will be introduced with the new operating system: The first technology, Grand Central, is designed...
IDG "Completely Blindsided" by Apple's Withdrawal from Macworld
CNet reports that Apple's announcement that Steve Jobs would not be hosting the keynote for Macworld San Francisco 2009 came as a complete surprise to IDG, the organizers of the show. The announcement "completely blindsided" IDG, according to a source familiar with the negotiations, coming just weeks before the event was scheduled to take place. IDG World Expo, a division of tech publishing giant ...
Apple Researching Multi-Touch Skins and New Gestures
Apple's patent applications sometimes enter into bizarre and conceptual territory. This week's patent application reveals research into portable multi-touch skins that can be placed on three dimensional objects: The one or more multi-touch skins enable multi-touch inputs during the operation of the object. The multi-touch inputs can be tracked to monitor the operation of the object and provide...
iPhone Games: Rolando, SimCity, HydroTilt, Konami
Rolando
It's been a big week in iPhone gaming this week with a couple of major releases of long anticipated titles and a big announcement by Konami.
Rolando - We first covered this game back in July and was one of the first iPhone games we got excited about. It finally arrived and first impressions are very good.
SimCity - EA's SimCity is a near complete port of the PC version of...
Apple is Licensee and Investor of Imagination Technologies (PowerVR)
According to a press release from Imagination Technologies Group, Apple is "subscribing for" 8,200,000 new shares of Imagination Technologies Group which means Apple will have an ownership interest of 3.6% in the company. The press release also reveals that Apple is a licensee of Imagination's technology.
This is the first public confirmation that Apple is both a licensee and investor in the...
MacUpdate Holiday Mac Application Bundle Ends Today
A few times a year, MacRumors partners with MacUpdate to promote their Mac application bundle deal. Their latest bundle delivers up to 10 Mac applications for $49.99 (a $447.96 value if all purchased separately) ends today:
- Drive Genius 2 ($99): diagnoses and repairs problems with your hard drive, optimizes your system, and more.
- Rapi...
Apple Had Long Planned to Leave Macworld
As more reactions come in, Apple's stock has dropped in the setting of downgrades by at least one financial analyst from Oppenheimer & Co. Businessweek's Arik Hesseldahl hopes that this might mean that Apple could show up at CES, though this would go against Apple's reasoning that trade shows are simply less important.
Gizmodo reports that Apple had been planning to get out of Macworld for a ...
Orange Loses iPhone Exclusivity in France
Apple must allow other mobile carriers to sell the iPhone 3G in France based on a ruling today. The decision overturns an exclusive arrangement with Apple that has allowed Orange to be the iPhone's exclusive distributor in France since the phone was launched last year.Orange does not believe the decision will affect agreements in other countries. Bouygues Telecom "welcomed" the ruling and plans to ...
More Confirmation of Wal-Mart iPhone
We're not sure how much more confirmation is really needed, but in case you doubted the original rumor, Wal-Mart confirmations, and previously leaked ad, here's another leaked memo to confirm what we all know: Wal-Mart will be carrying the iPhone on December...
Reaction to Apple's Withdrawal from Macworld, Apple Expo Paris Cancelled
Apple's decision to withdraw from Macworld entirely has been generating a massive amount of feedback, both in our forums and the industry in general. Aside from the immediate impact, many are concerned that the withdrawal represents the end of the Macworld conference in general. Indeed, Apple's withdrawal from Apple Expo Paris has resulted in the cancellation of that show going forward....
Refurbished iPhones Available from AT&T
AT&T has started offering refurbished iPhones for discounted prices through their website.
The 8GB Black iPhone is available for $149 ($50 off) while the 16GB (White and Black) are available for $249 ($50 off). We're not sure how much stock is available. The last time AT&T offered refurbished iPhones, they sold out rather...
Apple's Macworld Exit Due to Politics Not Health Issues?
Apple announced today that 2009 would be Apple's last year participating in Macworld Expo and that Phil Schiller, not Steve Jobs, would deliver the final keynote address. Understandably, speculation has been directed towards health concerns about Steve Jobs as the reason for the withdrawal. Jobs underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer but has been said to been cancer free as recently as July.
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Analyst Believes Apple Will Unveil Netbooks at Macworld
Computerworld reports on an analyst Ezra Gottheil of Technology Business Research Inc. who believes that Apple could introduce two new netbook models at Macworld San Francisco.
While an intriguing possibility, Gottheil admits this is not based on any inside information: "I...
