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 Announces Long-Term Flash Memory Agreements
Apple announced today that it has reached long term supply agreements with a number of memory supply companies including Hynix, Intel, Micro, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba.
Apple will prepay up to $1.25 billion for flash memory over the next three months. The agreements secure a supply of NAND flash memory through 2010. "We want to be able to produce as many of our wildly popular iPods as...
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TiVo to Support Video Transfer to iPod
The New York Times reports that TiVo is announcing both iPod and Sony PSP support for its Digital Video Recorder (TiVo).
The newest version of its TiVoToGo software will allow users to transfer recorded television programming to either an Apple iPod (5G) or Sony PSP.
According to a press release the feature will begin testing in the coming weeks, with full availability to TiVo Series2...
Apple After Thanksgiving Sale
Apple is again planning on an after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) sale at its retail stores.
Apple has offered special discounts for the past several years (2002, 2003, 2004).
Last year's event saw variable discounts on many items in the Apple Store. (a list from 2004)...
Smaller iPod shuffle?
An American Technology Research analyst claims that they have heard that Apple may be working on an even smaller form factor for the iPod shuffle as well as a introduction of a choice of colors.
The price points and storage capacity, however, are expected to remain at $99/$129 and 512MB/1GB in order to minimize overlap with their recently introduced iPod nano.
Apple recently added a "black" ...
Front Row 1.0.1 Released
Apple released a .01 update to their Front Row Application that ships with the newest iMac G5s. The Front Row Update delivers overall improved reliability and compatibility for browsing music, photos, and videos on your iMac.
The update appears to only offer stability improvements and no major new features. The newest update reportedly includes checks to make sure that the user is running on the ...
Intel iBook at MWSF (January) 2006?
ThinkSecret is adding its two cents on possible Intel-Mac releases at Macworld San Francisco in January of 2006.
ThinkSecret is citing that according to "highly reliable sources", Apple is planning on releasing their first entry-level Intel iBooks at the Macworld expo. Detailed specs are not available, but the rumor site hints that the iBook line may see a price drop by as much as $200 in...
iPod and iTunes Success in Japan
Apple announced today that iTunes and iPod have almost 60% market share in Japan. Since the launch of the iTunes Music Store this summer and introduction of the iPod nano and fifth generation iPod, market share in Japan has grown rapidly, solidifying iPods position as the number one digital music player in Japan by a wide margin.
Since its launch in August, Apple reports that dozens of music...
Revamping the Motorola ROKR
After a lackluster launch, Businessweek is reporting that Motorola and Cingular are working on a revamp for the ROKR iTunes-enabled phone. Though an early move by both companies to put music on mobile phones was a disappointment, they don't plan to make the same mistake twice.
According to the article, Motorola says to have shipped 500,000 of the ROKR phone, despite the poor reviews. While able ...
More Quad PowerMac G5 Benchmarks
As the Quad PowerMac G5's start to arrive, more benchmarks are emerging.
Barefeats posts a collection of benchmarks from After Effects, Cinebench G5, Photoshop CS2, Xbench, and UT2004 comparing the Dual Dual-Core ("Quad") G5 2.5GHz PowerMac to the previous Dual 2.5GHz G5 PowerMac.
Meanwhile, Macsonly also provides the same comparison with...
Apple seeking Low-Density Flash Supplier
Digitimes reports that Apple is looking for quotes for low-density NAND flash from Hynix Semiconductor.
Apple presently receives most of its supply of flash chips from Samsung and Toshiba, but due to high demand for these products, Apple is looking towards Hynix to fulfill their low-density needs for the iPod shuffle. With increased supplies of products available, overall pricing for these...
Jobs offers Mac OS X for $100 Laptop
The Wall Street Journal reports on an initiative to develop a $100 laptop targetted at school children in developing nations. A non-profit organization called One Laptop Per Child has been formed to oversee the project with plans to put the laptop into the hands of...
Mac OS X 10.4.4 Seeded
According to reports, Apple has seeded Mac OS X 10.4.4 Build 8G7 to developers. The newest build is said to offer a number of fixes for the Mac operating...
Apple Hardware Announcement this Week?
Appleinsider posts some vague hints that Apple may be ramping up for a hardware announcement sometime this week. ...sources speculate that the announcement could range anywhere from the externally-rumored pink Madonna iPod (her new album is due on Tuesday) to dual-core versions of Apple's Xserve enterprise servers....
First Hand with Mac OS X on Toshiba Intel (x86)
ZDNet.co.uk posted a review on installing Intel Mac OS X on non-Mac hardware. The [Intel Mac OS X] is bound directly to the hardware by a special security chip. However, some developers have succeeded in circumventing this coupling, allowing the operating system to be installed on any x86 system, as this test report shows.
The article describes the installation and use of Mac OS X on a Toshiba...
iPod nano Shipping with Case
Several sites are reporting that Apple is shipping a small protective sleeve with the iPod nano. This mimics the protective sleeve that they have been shipping with the 5G iPod.
Despite reassurances from Apple that the Nano ships with same screens as the previous generation of iPod, a class action suit regarding the...
Intel Powerbook and iMac in January?
Appleinsider also reports that Intel-based Macs will make their debut at Macworld San Francisco (MWSF) 2006 in January.
The rumor site expects that the iMac will be the first Intel-based Macs to be introduced in January. The Intel iMac is not expected to introduce any significant new features or case redesign, instead simply updating the processor with this revision. This is contrary to prev...
Power Mac G5 Quad Benchmarks
One of our Wales UK-based members has reported receiving his Power Mac G5 Quad earlier in the week, and has run a preliminary set of Xbench 1.2 benchmarks on it.
While full details are in the forum thread, the overall Xbench score for the machine with 3 GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.4.2 weighs in at 151.86.
For comparison, the Dual 2.7GHz PowerMac has an Xbench score of 109.87... but due to...
Pixar's Results and iTunes Video Sales
Pixar reported their 3rd quarter financial results today. Pixar reported net income of $27.4 million on revenues of $45.8 million over the 3rd quarter. This beat industry estimates, especially in a quarter in which Pixar did not release a movie.
Steve Jobs, of course, is both CEO of Apple as well as Pixar and was a participant of the Pixar results conference call.
In it, Jobs revealed...
NBC and CBS Offering OnDemand Episodes
NBC and CBS announced that they would be offering replays of prime-time television shows for $.99 per episode on an On-Demand basis through Comcast (CBS) and DirecTV (NBC).
Only a few details are available. CBS's shows will retain their commercials. NBC's shows will be available for one week after their broadcast (no commercials).
Apple's recent release of iTunes with Video appears to...
Apple Australian iTunes Contract Terms?
ThinkSecret claims to have some details surrounding Apple's negotiations with Australian record labels and the iTunes Music Store.
According to the rumor site, Apple is paying AU$.99 for every single that sells for AU$1.69. Apple leaves itself the option to raise customer prices at any time after giving 5 days notice to the labels. Album pricing and reimbursement appears to be more variable.
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