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
iPod Television Ad - 1000 Songs
Several readers note that Apple has posted a new iPod TV Ad
The advertisement features the music of Rinrse (iTunes link) and shows album covers stacking together in the form of buildings. The cover art later funnels into an iPod nano and the text displays: 1,000 songs in your pocket
The ad is also being offered in high...
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Windows XP Booting on Mac Contest Over [Update x3]
The contest to boot Windows XP on the Mac is over. The winners will receive $13,854: Contest has been won - updates to follow shortly. All further donations will go into an account to sustain the open source project that will be launched with the initial solution.
The instructions to the contest stipulated the following conditions:
- Boot Windows XP on the Intel Mac
- Windows must coexist ...
Apple advertising the Macbook (iBook)?
Melablog.it notices that Apple appears to be advertising under the keyword "MacBook" in Google.it's search results.
The top sponsored result returns the title "Macbook" and a link to the Italy Apple Store. This is not necessarily interesting in itself, but it describes the "Macbook" as starting at 999.
No MacBook Pro starts that low, and the current iBook starts at 1049 in the Italy...
Video of Windows XP Booting on iMac
Engadget posts a video of Windows XP booting on the iMac submitted by narf2006. Narf2006 previously posted photos of the WindowsXP on the Mac on Monday as a possible solution to the WinXP on Mac Contest. The infamous narf2006 has made good on his earlier promise to provide a video of Windows XP booting on an Intel-based iMac. While the video looks fairly convincing, we'll continue to reserve...
iTunes Movies to be sold for $9.99?
Early this morning the first full length movie of was spotted on Apple's iTunes Music Store.
The iTunes link to High School Musical was accessible and offered a 1 hour 39 minute Disney Channel original TV movie. This 487MB file represents the first full length movie content that has appeared on iTunes. The movie was originally available for only $1.99 which was the same price as most...
CBS Sports and Apple Offer 2006 NCAA Basketball on iTunes
CBS and Apple announced today that they would be offering the 2006 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship on the iTunes Music Store.
For $1.99, users can individually purchase condensed versions of all of the 2006 NCAA Championship games. Apple is also offering a "Season Pass" which allows people to pre-purchase all 63 games for $19.99. Games will be available the day after they are...
Apple Spotlight Patents Hinting at Leopard?
Hrmpf and Appleinsider are posting images from Apple's recent patent applications surrounding their Spotlight search technology.
The images show different versions of Finder/Spotlight than what has shipped with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). Both sites speculate that these may be signs of the interface to come in the next version of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Alternatively, they may simply be...
Apple Offering Full Length Movie on iTunes [Update x2]
Now that Apple is offering Music Videos, Short Films and TV shows for download on their iTunes Music Store, the transition to selling full length movies is not a technical issue, but more of a marketing / licensing issue.
It appears Apple is now offering the first full-length movie for sale on the iTunes Music Store.
High School Musical (iTunes Link) is a 1 hour 39 minute Disney Channel...
Windows XP Booting on Intel Macs?
Ongoing efforts to boot Windows XP on the recently released Intel Macs appears to be coming within reach. This, despite that last week Microsoft revealed that they did not intend to support Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) in the upcoming release of Windows Vista. Since the new Intel Macs only support EFI (and not BIOS), this was perceived to be a setback for the possibility of dual-booting ...
French Law to Open iTunes?
Yahoo reports that France is pushing through a law that could result in opening Apple's iTunes songs to other music players
The new law would allow consumers to be able to legally use software to convert digital content into any format. It would no longer be illegal to crack digital rights management -- the codes that protect music, films and other content -- if it is to enable to the...
PowerMacs in August? Video iPod and Intel iBook April?
Citigroup analysts are upgrading their stock recommendation for Apple from hold to buy based on expectations that Apple will complete the Intel transition in August.
According to their research, they expect Apple to release new Dual-Core PowerMacs in August. This would correlate with Apple pushing WWDC back to August this year.
Meanwhile, Citi also expects Intel iBooks "as early as...
NBC's Scrubs Coming to iTunes
iMediaConnection reports that NBC Universal and Touchstone Television are working a on a deal to add Scrubs Episodes to the Apple iTunes store.
The deal is unique in that it requires cooperation between NBC and a 3rd Party Studio (Touchstone, in this case) which produces the show to be offered (Scrubs). According to Variety, the two companies are splitting ...
Apple Refining the Touch Screen Interface? Evidence for a Tablet Mac?
Throughout 2005, Apple continued to apply for numerous touch-screen technology patents. These patents aren't simply attributable to the rumored touch-screen iPod. Many of the patents have shown Mac OS X elements and interfaces.
The most recent addition was filed in September 2005 and called "Operation of a computer with touch screen interface". Again, individuals at Apple appear to be...
No EFI Support on Windows Vista?
APCMag reports that Microsoft has made comments that the upcoming version of Microsoft Windows Vista will not support Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) booting as some had expected.
Many Intel Mac owners were expecting that Windows Vista support for EFI would allow users to easily boot the newest version of Windows on their Macs. The Intel Macs only incorporate EFI booting, while older PCs...
Apple iGame?
Station A posts a pdf and image of an article in the April issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly entitled "i GOT GAME: Apple bites into the portable-gaming market".
The article depicts a Nintendo Gameboy / iPod hybrid image which claims to be an Apple portable game machine to be introduced by Apple called the iGame.
EGM reportedly posts April Fools articles in their April magazine issues,...
New Video iPod on Apple's 30th Anniversary (April 1)?
MacObserver points to a PortalPlayer analyst report issued by Craig Berger and James Schneider of Wedbush Morgan.
The report predicts a decline in shipments in the 2nd Quarter for PortalPlayer -- producer of key components in the Apple iPod. However, looking forward, the analysts describe a sharp ramp up in demand based on "independent confirmation from a reliable industry source" that Apple...
Microsoft's Origami Announced
CNN reports on Microsoft's Origami project that has been hinted at of the past couple of weeks.
As expected, the Origiami Project reveals a paperback book sized portable computer. Lighter than two pounds with a seven-inch touch-screen, the new "ultra-mobile" PCs (UMPCs) use microprocessors from Intel Corp and run a modified version of Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC edition.
Samsung is slated ...
Apple to Offer 'Season Pass' for TV Shows
Apple's been busy with updates to their iTunes Music store model. Yesterday, Apple introduced a Multi-pass system to pre-purchase upcoming episodes of daily TV shows a month in advance. The new system will automatically download new shows as they are aired. (16 new episodes for one month at $9.99).
Now, Apple's iTunes site reveals that Apple will be introducing a "Season Pass" for weekly TV...
Over 1000 Universal (Intel) Applications? and Windows on Mac?
EETimes reports on comments by Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer at the Morgan Stanley Semiconductor and Systems Conference.
Oppenheimer reports that there are 1000 Universal Applications today for the Intel Mac OS X. Older applications need to be recompiled to run at full speed on the latest Intel-based Macs. Previous Macs used the PowerPC processor. As Apple transitions to the an all...
MacBook Pros in High Demand, Increased Mac Market Share?
Piper Jaffray analysts are recommending shares of Apple Computer, citing high demand for the MacBook Pro: The analyst's checks also indicated that there is pent-up demand for the MacBook Pro -- 70% of the stores have a waiting list of MacBook Pro customers.
Meanwhile, Needham & Co analysts believev that Apple has positioned itself for "massive growth in its market share".
Based on their online ...
