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
Patent: Organizing Multiple Dashboard Widgets
MacNN details several patent applications from Apple surrounding their Dashboard technology in Mac OS X.
The patent application surrounds efforts to organize sets of dashboards, much like Apple's upcoming "Spaces" feature in Leopard to organize workspaces. The MacNN blog takes a bit of a leap and suggests that these features will be seen in Leopard, but there is no clear evidence that this...
Sun Joins OpenOffice to Mac OS X Porting Efforts
A Sun Blog entry reveals that Sun engineering is joining on ongoing project to port OpenOffice to Mac OS X (native). Currently, a version of OpenOffice runs under X11, but the new project aims to provide a native Aqua interface. Why is Sun joining the Mac porting project? If you look around at conferences and airport lounges, you will notice that more and more people are using Apple notebooks...
Apple ProCare, One-to-One and Personal Shopping
Apple's updated their site to reflect the new ProCare, One to One and Personal Shopping services that they are now providing.
One to One
http://www.apple.com/retail/onetoone/
Our trainers experts in all things Apple create a program customized to your level of experience. You can choose individual sessions covering everything from getting started on a Mac to making more out of your...
Apple Posts Security Update 2007-004 v1.1, Quicktime 7.1.6 and Airport Update
Apple has posted version 1.1 of their 2007-004 update released earlier this month. The new update corrects some bugs introduced in the first update (note: only affects very specific versions of Mac OS X, seen notes):
AirPort
Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9
This update corrects an issue where the AirPort connection may be lost after waking from sleep. This issue only affects Mac OS X v10.3.9...
Microsoft Silverlight Supports Mac
A Channelweb article describes a new product from Microsoft called Silverlight which is a new web browser client for "advanced, browser-based video functionality."
Silverlight is said to be going head-to-head against Adobe's Flash, and is said to offer advanced functionality. Netflix plans to adopt Silverlight as the foundation for its instant-viewing feature; a demo showed off high-quality...
Steve Jobs to Give WWDC 2007 Keynote
Apple announced today that Steve Jobs will indeed be giving the Keynote speech at WWDC 2007.
The keynote speech will take place on Monday, June 11th at 10a.m. PT at San Francisco's Moscone West. Apple will be showing a "feature complete version" of Mac OS X Leopard and will be giving out beta copies to developers for testing.
As announced earlier, the final version of Leopard will ship in ...
AppleTV at Costco - $289
Arstechnica notes that the AppleTV will also be found at some Costco stores for $289. In other news, a reader and friend of mine Dan Ciskey e-mailed me over the weekend, saying that some Costcos may also be carrying the Apple TV. He said that the one he works at in Lincoln Park in Chicago has them (apparently without fanfare) for $289.99 and that they don't charge a restocking fee upon returns. He ...
Apple Splitting 'ProCare' into 'ProCare' and 'One-to-One'
MacRumors has heard that Apple will be relaunching its ProCare product on Wednesday, splitting the $99 service into two separate $99 services.
Apple's current ProCare package offers a number of services for a $99/year cost. These services include:
Personal Training - up to 52 one-hour sessions over a year.
Fast Track - priority repairs and available same-day service at the Genius Bar.
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Ballmer on iPhone Marketshare
USA Today interviewed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about his thoughts on the iPhone. While Ballmer gives credit to Apple's early move into the music arena, he doubts the iPhone will gain any significant marketshare: Now we'll get a chance to go through this again in phones and music players. There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500...
First Photos from Apple iPhone?
An unusual story has popped up on MobileGuerilla claiming to have found the first photos from an Apple iPhone on the web.
The search method seemed rather primitive... they simply searched for "taken with an Apple iPhone" on Google and found a set of Flickr images (now removed) tagged with the phrase. The phrase is automatically generated by Flickr based on the EXIF data from the camera...
Dell Reconsidering Direct Model. Dell Retail?
The New York Times reports on a recent memo sent by Michael Dell to Dell's 80,000 employees.
In the memo, Dell suggested that they would be restructuring beyond the "direct sales" model. From the article: It is the first time that Mr. Dell or any other senior executive has publicly conceded that the business model that was crucial to the companys success could and should be altered. Until...
Apple TVs Show Up at Target (Photos)
Skoker submitted these photos of the Apple TV, now at retail Target stores. An earlier report had indicated that Target would begin offering the Apple TV by the end of this month.
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Apple's Subnotebook 'Delayed' Until Late 2007/Early 2008?
Appleinsider now believes that Apple's "ultra-thin and lightweight notebook" with NAND flash may take more time than originally projected. The rumor site had previously believed that a "lighter and more compact than any other Mac portable Apple has put forth in recent years" was on track near WWDC (June 2007). Citing a maturing timeline, people familiar with the initiative now have the chic...
Desktop Multitouch Screen Technology?
DailyTechRag.com mixes some creative speculation with comments from Synaptics.
Synaptics first gained recognition for supplying the click-wheels for Apple's earlier iPods. More recently, they made headlines with a concept phone called Onyx which demonstrated a technology called "ClearPad" -- "a thin, high resolution ...
iTunes Movies in Europe by Year's End
Macworld.co.uk reports on comments made by Apple's vice president for Europe, Pascal Cagni this week: Cagni also confirmed that Apple will launch its iPhone in Europe in the fourth quarter of this year, and confirmed plans to open an Apple retail store in Paris, France at some point.
Last reports on a European launch of iTunes movies had targeted Spring 2007....
Apple Notifies Partners: DRM-free Music and DRM-free Music Videos Soon
Yesterday, Apple sent out short notices to their iTunes partners who provide the music content to the iTunes store. The notices let partners know that they would soon be able to offer DRM-free music and DRM-free music videos to customers through iTunes. Many of you have reached out to iTunes to find out how you can make your songs available higher quality and DRM-free. Starting next...
Unlimited Online Backup for Mac
Mozy.com announced last week the availability of a public beta for a Mac version of their online backup service.
The services is described as "the first unlimited online backup service for Mac users worldwide." Designed as a consumer service, Mac Mozy leverages Apple's innovative Spotlight Search technology, allowing users to easily select the types of files they want to back up. The service...
Apple Working on iWeb Pro?
According to an unconfirmed report, Apple is working on a higher end web authoring application to complement iWeb, much like they've provided a range of software applications for other aspects of the iLife suite.
"iWeb Pro" is said to offer an easy to use web authoring interface for small to mid sized companies. While the current version of iWeb is more of a complementary tool to .Mac, "iWeb...
Steve Jobs: Customers Don't Seem Interested in Music Subscriptions
Reuters reports on comments by Apple's Steve Jobs about the possibility of subscription-based music sales for iTunes.
According to Jobs "never say never, but customers don't seem to be interested in it". The article suggests that he is unlikely to give into pressure from record labels to offer a subscription model for music on iTunes.
The news comes as Apple begins re-negotiating contracts ...
