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
Amazon Adds DRM-Free Warner Music
Amazon has announced that they have added Warner Music Group's catalog to their MP3 Download Store.
MP3s downloaded from Amazon's store can be played on Apple's iPod and iPhone and contain no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. Apple provides music without DRM in their...
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Apple in Online Film-Rental Deal with Fox Studio?
The Financial Times reports that Apple has signed a deal with the 20th Century Fox studio to launch an online video-on-demand service "that could change the way people pay for online film content." The new service is set to launch at Macworld Expo, which kicks off on January 15th with Steve Jobs' keynote speech. The service will allow consumers to rent the latest Fox DVD releases by downloading ...
2007's Rumor Rejects and Unconfirmed: Google Acquisition, iSight, MacBook Pro...
MacRumors receives many rumor submissions every month -- most of which can't be verified, and many are outright fake. Here's a collection of rejected or unconfirmed rumors from 2007 that we publish for interest alone, and are not necessarily believed to be real. In the past, some rumors from our rumor reject list have later become true.
- Since June 07, Merrill Lynch is preparing Apple's...
Macworld San Francisco 2008 Keynote Transcripts?
We've received two purported transcripts for the Macworld 2008 Keynote. For some reason, fake transcripts appear to be a popular thing to submit to rumor sites. We publish these for discussion and interest and feel that they do not represent legitimate transcripts about what to expect at Macworld Expo 2008.
The transcripts are reproduced in the comment thread....
New Apple Laptop 'Confirmed' at Macworld San Francisco 2008?
A BoyGeniusReport claims that Apple promised new laptops to bands performing at a holiday event reportedly hosted by Apple: Apple had a recent holiday event where they had artists perform (some really big names, too), and they all did it for free! Why did they perform without being paid? Apple promised to give every performer and band member once of the new laptops they are coming out with at...
iPhone Encouraging Mobile Data Usage
An FT.com article reports on findings from O2's recent launch of the iPhone in the UK.
One interesting statistic that was revealed was that 60% of U.K. iPhone users are sending or receiving more than 25 MB of data a month. This information alone is difficult to interpret, but O2's chief appears to believe that this...
Details on Apple's Portable Mini-Tablet Device?
A Seekingalpha article claims to have details on an upcoming Apple portable device which is described as a touch screen device. The details are claimed to come from "several different sources" over the past 6 months.
- Touch Screen device Larger than iPhone featuring one distinguishing button or depression on each side
- 5.2" 800x480 pixel touch screen by Balda
- No keyboard, multi-touch...
Apple to Auto Adjust Maximum iPod Volume?
DailyMail.co.uk reports on a recent Apple patent application that describes how Apple could automatically adjust maximum volumes on their iPod devices to help protect the listeners from developing any long-term hearing damage. A new patent reveals that the next iPods and iPhones could automatically calculate how long a person has been listening and at what volume, before gradually reducing the...
ThinkSecret Cash Settlement?
The L.A. Times cites sources in-the-know that claim that ThinkSecret's Nick Ciarelli did indeed receive some amount of monetary compensation from Apple as part of their final settlement. [Ciarelli] also received a payment from Apple, according to a person familiar with the case. Both sides declined to discuss details of the agreement.
There has been a tremendous amount of speculation that this...
Apple to Reach 5 Million iPhones Sold by Macworld?
9to5mac claims that Apple will reach approximately 5 million in iPhone sales by Macworld San Francisco in January 2008 which would bring them half way to their goal of 10 million iPhones sold by the end of 2008.
According to 9to5mac's sources, approximately 1 million of these sales are through Europe, despite reports of sluggish...
Apple to Adopt Intel Ultra-Mobile Platform?
Appleinsider claims that Apple will be adopting Intel's upcoming "Menlow" Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform for multiple new devices in 2008.
Menlow incorporates a 45-nanometer low-power "Silverthorne" chip that promises to utilize only between half a watt to 2 watts of...
Apple the Loser in ThinkSecret Settlement?
A Computerworld article provides reaction from ThinkSecret's lawyer on today's announcement that ThinkSecret had settled with Apple and would no longer be published.
Terry Gross of Gross & Belsky LLP told Computerworld, "The First Amendment has prevailed and every Internet journalist should feel some strength from what's happened", claiming that it was clear that Apple was going to lose if...
Apple Adds List View to Stacks in Leopard 10.5.2
Macenstein publishes a screenshot from the latest build of Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 that reveals that Apple has included a List-View into Stacks. Stacks is a file organization feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Users are also given the option of displaying a traditional Folder icon instead of the "stack" of icons in the...
ThinkSecret Shuts Down, Settles Apple Lawsuit
Apple rumor site, ThinkSecret, issued a statement today indicating that they would no longer be published due to terms of a confidential settlement with Apple. Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published. Nick ...
iPhone-Friendly Quicken for $3/month
Intuit will be offering an iPhone-friendly web-version of Quicken for $3 a month starting January 8th. The version that Intuit has developed for iPhone has been designed for use on-the-go, offers fewer features than the version for regular Web browsers and is optimized for iPhone screens.
Intuit reportedly targeted iPhone users first for this mobile version "because Apple enthusiasts tend to be...
Apple Working on Multi-Touch Mac?
An Apple Job listing (noted on Engadget) reveals that Apple is indeed working on multi-touch Mac hardware.
They are looking for a reliability engineer supporting Multi-touch panel development with Mac and iPod hardware groups. The job itself seems to involve high level quality assurance testing, but the involvement of the Mac hardware group seems to confirm that Apple is working to...
Boot Camp vs Parallels vs VMware Fusion Benchmarks
MacTech performed an exhaustive set of benchmarks comparing Parallels, VMWare Fusion and Boot Camp to run Windows on a Mac. To tackle this problem, MacTech undertook a huge benchmarking project starting in September. The goal was to see how Boot Camp, VMware Fusion, and Parallels performed on different levels of Mac hardware, covering both Windows XP and Vista, and comparing that to a baseline PC ...
NYC: Upper West Side Apple Store
The NY Post reports that Apple will be building yet another Apple store in New York City on the northwest corner of Broadway and 67th Street. Sources say Apple plans to put up a new building - which has architecture-buffs wondering if one of Apple's trademark glass designs is on the drawing board.
Apple recently opened up a new NYC Apple store on West 14th street on December...
3G iPhone in Japan?
New reports have suggested that Apple is in talks with DoCoMo to bring the iPhone to Japan.
Tech.co.uk claims that this must mean a 3G iPhone is in the works as there is no EDGE network in Japan: Wherever the iPhone ends up in Japan, it means one thing - it has to be a 3G model, as there simply is no GSM network in the country. Suggestions of a new model with a CDMA chip of some sort appearing...
Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5.2 and Java SE 6 Preview 8 for Leopard
Apple has seeded developers with two updates tonight.
The first is the Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C7) update which lists fixes to 76 distinct issues. Bug fixes range from memory leaks, various printing issues, SMB support and more. Apple issued Mac OS X 10.5.1 in November and has recently updated retail copies of Leopard to include the full 10.5.1 version. A Page 2 rumor pegs the Mac OS X 10.5.2...
