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 Releases iTunes 7.6.1, $0.99 Rental Discounts
Apple released iTunes 7.6.1 today through the Mac OS X Software Update. This maintenance release includes several bug fixes and improves compatibility with Apple TV 2.0. The included description remains the same as the original 7.6 release: Rent and download your favorite movies with iTunes on your computer or directly to your living room on Apple TV. Enjoy rented movies in sizes up to 720p HD...
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Advanced Multitouch: Writing Without a Stylus and More
More Apple patent applications were published today, though many rehash earlier patents applications that were revealed in November. Still, the technology behind the advanced multi-touch are impressive enough to bear repeating.
The patent, originally published in November 2007, describes methods for interpreting a remarkable amount of gestures that allow for a rich vocabulary -- such as...
Linkin Park Plays... No Apple Event in February?
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Linkin Park played at the Apple Soho store tonight, fulfilling the rumored "secret" Apple/Linkin Park show. The six song set was recorded for a future iTunes release.
As we approach the end of February, however, the absence of press invitations to a true Apple event makes the rumored Apple media event increasingly unlikely. Apple typically gives media at...
iTunes Rental Pricing Flexibility and Earlier Releases
When Steve Jobs announced iTunes Movie Rentals at the Macworld San Francisco 2008 keynote, he said that the digital rentals would appear 30 days after their DVD release. This delay is typically mandated by the movie studios who hold back "on demand" products, such as rentals, for 30-45 days after DVD release to avoid sales cannibalization.
Readers have noticed, however, that several movies...
More iPhone SDK Hints? BBC iPlayer, Gameloft Games
Guardian.co.uk reports on BBC announcements about their iPlayer streaming television service, including usage stats. Amongst the announcements, however, is also the tidbit that the BBC will be launching their iPlayer service to be available on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices in "the next few weeks".
There are surprisingly few details about this iPhone version of the BBC's iPlayer. The...
'DVD Jon' Launches Doubletwist: Share and Sync Protected iTunes Music
Jon Lech Johansen ("DVD Jon") launched DoubleTwist today, a venture that was originally reported back in October 2006. DVD Jon originally gained notoriety (and his nickname) for his involvement in releasing the DeCSS software that allowed the bypassing of DVD copy protection. Since then, he has made headlines with the release of QTFairUse which decoded Apple's FairPlay digital rights system for ...
AT&T Offering Unlimited Voice Plan for $99
Announced today, Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile are offering new $99.99 unlimited voice calling plans. This allows mobile phone customers to talk as long as they want, seven days a week. The plans will be available to new and existing wireless subscribers for $99.99 a month for unlimited U.S. calling on all devices with no domestic roaming or long distance charges. The $99 plans is also available...
Apple Introduces XSan 2
Alongside the iPod Shuffle price drops today, Apple also introduced Xsan 2, the first major upgrade to its Storage Area Network (SAN) file system for Mac OS X. Xsan 2 makes it easier for first time users to set up and quickly deploy a SAN; introduces MultiSAN, allowing users on a single workstation to access multiple SANs at the same time; is fully integrated with Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X...
Apple Drops iPod Shuffle Price to $49, Adds 2GB Model at $69
Apple has dropped the price of the iPod Shuffle to $49 (from $79) today. The $49 iPod Shuffle stores 1GB of songs or up to 240 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format. Meanwhile, a new 2GB model has also been introduced at $69. "At just $49, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of Worldwide iPod Product Marketing. "The new 2GB model lets music lovers ...
Apple Depicts Advanced Multitouch Gesturing Control Panel in Mac OS X
In case there were any doubts that Apple was exploring the use of advanced multitouch gestures under Mac OS X, a recent Apple patent application authored by Wayne Westerman (of Fingerworks) shows mockups of a Mac OS X gesturing control panel with options to configure standard trackpad, basic multitouch, and advanced multitouch settings:
Apple's notebooks already contain what we presume to...
iTunes Movie Rentals Beyond 24 Hours
With the introduction of the new iTunes rental system, the 24 hour time limit on rentals has raised concerns about the inability to rent a movie one night and finish at the same time the following night.
When you rent a movie on iTunes, you have 30 days to start watching the movie before it expires. Once you start watching it, however, you only have a 24 hour window before it expires. Tidbi...
BBC Adds Shows to iTunes
As predicted, the BBC has added their television programs to iTunes UK. Accessible through UK iTunes: BBC Worldwide brings iTunes users in the UK the best of British TV programmes from the BBC. Our programmes are exciting, compelling, passionate, provocative, bold, unpredictable and moving, and include some of the best comedy -- Little Britain, The Catherine Tate Show and Two Pints of Lager & ...
128GB Solid State Drive Suitable for MacBook Air
Mtron announced today that they have developed a 128GB 1.8" solid state drive (SSD) with a ZIF-type interface that is due to ship in April 2008. Mtrons new SSD with Single Level Cell (SLC) Flash memory supports PATA (ZIF-type) interface and has a maximum reading speed of 120MB/s and writing speed of 100MB/s, which is more than 6 times faster than the current 1.8 inch HDD. Therefore when its used...
Next Mobile Intel Processors and Platform (Montevina) Due in June 2008
Digitimes reports that Intel is poised to launch the Montevina platform at Computex Taipei 2008, which takes place from June 3-7, 2008.
Montevina is the next revision to Intel's mobile platform and will carry the consumer brand "Centrino 2" to distiguish it from the current "Centrino" brand which has encompassed a number of revisions (Carmel, Sonoma, Napa and Santa Rosa).
Six new 45nm...
American Idol Performances on iTunes
Apple announced today that they have partnered with Fox Broadcasting Company to provide performances from Season 7 of the American Idol show on iTunes one day after airing: "We've created a special section on the iTunes Store for 'Idol' fans with an incredible array of music and video performances from television's most popular show," said Eddy Cue, Apples vice president of iTunes. "We think...
BBC Shows on iTunes This Week?
After promises about moving BBC content to the Mac platform in 2008, TheRegister.co.uk is reporting that the BBC will start distributing shows over iTunes this week.
According to their sources, BBC will detail their plans on Tuesday and has already contacted third party production partners of the new distribution...
MacBook Pro Inventories Dwindling?
Reports claim that MacBook Pro supplies are dwindling at major retailers such as Best Buy. Checks with several popular online stores indicate continued stock, though Best Buy's Canadian affiliate, Future Shop, claims to be out of stock of the 2.2GHz version [of the MacBook Pro].Apple has been widely expected to upgrade the MacBook Pros to recently released Penryn...
Hints at iPhone SDK and Firmware 1.1.4 [Fake]
In October, Steve Jobs announced that they would be releasing a Software Development Kit for the iPhone and iPod Touch in February of 2008. While there had been rumors that some early developers had already received the SDK, little public information has been made available.
Tiny-Code.com, an iPhone Installer.app repository for fixes and updates to some unofficial 3rd party iPhone...
Advanced Multitouch Trackpad 'Unique to MacBook Air'
Yesterday, T3.co.uk published a story based on statements from Apple that existing MacBook and MacBook Pro owners might see expanded multitouch trackpad capabilites through a software-only update. The statement, however, was inaccurate and resulted in T3.co.uk pulling the original article.
Apple later clarified to T3.co.uk that the new Multitouch Trackpad is indeed unique to the Air, implying ...
ThinkSecret.com Now Offline
ThinkSecret.com officially went offline today, after the December announcement that they had settled their lawsuit with Apple. As part of the settlement agreement, ThinkSecret agreed that they would stop publishing, but due to existing advertising obligations they continued publishing in a limited fashion until February 14th.
ThinkSecret founder, Nick Ciarelli, is rumored to have received...
