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
Apple Refused to Build Copyright Filters for iPod [Updated]
The New York Times reports on NBC's recent decision to publish their television shows on Microsoft's video store for use on their Zune media player. NBC was once a content provider for Apple's iTunes but after months of negotiations, NBC and Apple parted ways last August. Apple had claimed the split was due to pricing but NBC later said it also had to do with Apple's unwillingness to "take...
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Apple With Specific Plans for P.A. Semi
EETimes provides a little background to the recent acquisition of P.A. Semi by Apple.
According to their source, Apple had already been an investor of the company and had previously been in negotiations with it for low-power PowerPC chips. Apple's switch to Intel, of course, ended ...
Telly Provides Mobile Television to iPhone
PacketVideo posted a video demonstrating Telly, a mobile broadcast receiver. The "matchbook sized" device streams live television over Wifi to your iPhone (or other Wifi enabled device). It can provide 3 hours of television on a full charge.
How it works is the Telly device receives television signals and encodes them in realtime into Quicktime for use on the iPhone. Telly appears to ...
Yet Another 3G iPhone Photo
Appleinsider posts another possible photo of the 3G iPhone, this time in black again. Appleinsider does not believe this represents a true leak and simply another mockup. As stated before, these purported photos are rarely accurate:
...
DioPen Handwriting Recognition for iPhone
Korean developer Diotek announced today that they are developing handwriting recognition software for the Apple iPhone that will recognize Korean, Chinese and English/European characters: This newly developed handwriting recognition software, DioPen, is an input method that allows writing letters on capacitive touchscreen of Apple's iPhone by using bare fingertip. Currently, iPhone only...
AT&T Blocking Out June 15-July 12 for 3G iPhone Launch?
Last year, AT&T limited employee vacation requests between June 15-July 15 in anticipation of the original iPhone launch which took place on June 29th, 2007.
Today, Boy Genius Report publishes another AT&T memo that is again restricting vacation requests, this time between June 15th and July 12th 2008. The reason for the restriction is "to ensure adequate store staffing and to give everyone...
HTC Launches Latest iPhone Competitor
Today, HTC announced the Touch Diamond, the latest in a number of phones that are taking aim directly at the iPhone. As a Windows Mobile 6.1 device, the phone will draw only a passing interest amongst Mac users, but shows off the efforts that Apple's competitors have put into their newest devices.
The 3G capable phone carries slightly smaller dimensions (102 x 51 x 11.33mm and 110g) than the ...
Both Telecom Italia and Vodafone to Offer iPhone in Italy
Both Telecom Italia and Vodafone independently announced that they have signed agreements with Apple to provide the iPhone in Italy. This, of course, clearly indicates that Apple has abandoned the exclusive single-carrier model that they have established in other markets.
Absent from these announcements are any details, but earlier rumors had indicated that this represents the 3G iPhone and ...
Vodafone to Deliver iPhone in Australia, Italy and Other Countries
Vodafone announced that it would be releasing Apple's iPhone in Australia later this year, as well as in New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, South Africa and Turkey. A spokesperson for Vodafone Australia confirmed that the carrier will release the iPhone locally in 2008, but could not provide any further information on the model, the price, the release date, or...
Apple Continues Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9d27) Development
Apple issued a new seed of Mac OS X 10.5.3 (build 9D27) to ADC developers tonight, detailing a number of new bug fixes and listing no known issues. The newest version of Mac OS X provides a number of bug fixes and stability improvements over the current public version (10.5.2) but remains in limited testing amongst developers as Apple finalizes its code base. Apple first started testing Mac OS...
Japanese Input Keyboards on iPhone 2.0
After news that the latest iPhone 2.0 beta firmware (due in June) had incorporated Chinese handwriting recognition, there were many readers who were interested to see the input options for Japanese language. Handwriting recognition is not available for the Japanese language in the latest beta.
Instead there is the standard keyboard:
As well as a Kana international keyboard:
...
Apple Denies Rumors of Selling Off Pro Apps
TVBEurope quotes Richard Townhill, Apple's director of marketing for professional video applications, regarding some recent rumors that Apple might be trying to sell off its "Pro Apps" (Final Cut Pro and associated applications) to another company.
Townhill strongly denied the rumors and said "I can categorically state, on the record, that is not the case".
Whispers of rumors that Apple...
More 3G iPhone Photos... Now in White
More photos claiming to be the unreleased 3G iPhone have emerged on Chinese forum WeiPhone.com (via WinandMac) and were posted to a discussion thread. The images bear a close resemblance to details revealed by iLounge about the upcoming iPhone.
The images show the unusual speaker/microphone holes (image 1) and the additional sensors (image 2). According to the original...
Apple Includes Chinese Handwriting Recognition in iPhone 2.0 Beta
Apple has quietly included handwriting recognition for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) into the latest iPhone Firmware 2.0 beta. When you select Chinese input, you are given the option to use handwriting recognition allowing you to draw characters on the screen with your finger. As you write the character, four possibilities appear on the right side of the screen.
Wretch.cc (Chinese) ...
APNews Service for iPhone and iPod Touch
The Associated Press launched a web-portal for iPhone and iPod Touch users to deliver breaking news.
The new "Mobile News Network" is accessible from your iPhone or iPod Touch via apnews.com and provides an optimized site that delivers news from more than 100 newspapers.
The site is very well designed for an iPhone web-application and offers both photo and Quicktime video that plays...
Apple Deploys Silhouette iPod Ads on Web
Apple recently released a new iPod/iTunes television ad featuring their traditional silhouetted dancers with iPods.
Today, Apple expanded the ad campaign with large flash advertisements targeted at music-focused websites such as Music.aol.com and Paste Magazine....
New MacBooks and MacBook Pros Tomorrow?
Macsimumnews claims that the MacBook and MacBook Pro will be revised as early as tomorrow (May 6th): Reliables sources tell Macsimum News that the MacBook and MacBook Pro will be revved as early as Tuesday, May 6. We havent confirmed this yet, but keep an eye out.
Though they describe their source as "reliable" they say that they have not confirmed this yet. The claim is somewhat...
T-Mobile Confirms 3G iPhone in Austria?
According to Austrian newspaper Der Standard, T-Mobile Austria has confirmed the 3G iPhone. According to the article, T-Mobile announced at press conference in Vienna that the 3G (UMTS) version of the iPhone will soon be available and that Austria will be the test market for the new phone. Austria will reportedly be one of the first countries worldwide to receive the new phone. The new phone...
Microsoft Walking Away from Yahoo Acquisition
On February 1st, Microsoft made headlines after publicly offering to purchase Yahoo for $44.6 Billion ($31/share). Microsoft's interest in Yahoo was primarily focused around their advertising business in an attempt to gain talent and technology in that sector to further compete with Google. On February 9th, Yahoo officially declined the offer due to claims the bid "massively" undervalued...
AT&T Disables Free iPhone Wi-Fi (For Now)
On Wednesday, we reported that AT&T had begun offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users at many of their national Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble locations.
No official announcement had been made, however, and AT&T representatives reportedly declined to comment. Today, many users are ...
