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
Intel Mac mini at MacWorld San Francisco in January?
Forbes reports on comments by Benjamin A. Reitzes of UBS Investment Research.
The analyst expects "more video content and digital entertainment offerings at Macworld in January".
Also hinted at is the possibility of an early release of the
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Over 1 Million Windows to Mac Converts in 2005?
Appleinsider quotes analyst Charles Wolf who claims that the estimates of Windows to Mac switchers may be higher then previous expected.
The numbers however are based on significant amount of guesswork, so it is hard to draw many conclusions: "If we assume that all of the growth in Mac shipments during the past three quarters resulted...
PowerBook with iSight and Widescreen iBook?
Appleinsider is reporting that Apple will be introducing "new eye-catching industrial designs" in the first half of 2006.
According to "extremely reliable sources", the rumor site reports that the first Intel machines will be appearing much sooner than middle of 2006, as officially announced.
Appleinsider expects a revised 13" Widescreen Intel iBooks to appear around April or May....
Return of Mac Clones?
Silicon.com provides a speculative but interesting piece of the possibility of Apple (again) licensing the Mac operating system to 3rd party PC manufacturers and brining back Mac Clones.
The article also recaps the history of Mac licensing from an early suggestion by Bill Gates for Apple to do so in 1985. Although the Apple management team resisted his advice initially, the seed was planted...
CBS and NBC Looking towards Digital Distribution
With the buzz surrounding Apple's launch of the ABC television episode sales on the iTunes Music Store, the other networks are stepping up their initiatives.
Mediapost reports that NBC and CBS are experimenting with online delivery of content.
CBS announced they will be distributing three episodes of prime-time sci-fi series "Threshold" online. Meanwhile, NBC is offering downloads of "NBC...
Intel and PowerPC Mac OS X Up to Date?
Many site are pointing to an unconfirmed blog report that the x86 Developer Mac OS X is up to parity with the PowerPC Mac OS X.
There appears to be some debate whether or not this is true, or the significance... however is posted for interest's...
5G (video) iPod Sales Strong?
According to various "industry and channel sources", one analyst is reporting that the 5th generation iPods are selling better than expected... even exceeding iPod nano sales in certain markets.
Businessweek points to 5-7 day delays in fulfilling orders of the 5th Generation iPod from Apple, however, this may simply be due to constraint in certain supplies. Apple is reportedly shopping around ...
Nokia's new Safari-based Smartphone Web Browser
MacNCell points out Nokia's press release for a new Web browser for their S60 smartphones. Nokia today unveiled the new Web browser for its world leading smartphone software, S60 platform. The new browser is aimed ...
Motorola SLVR L7 with iTunes (Photos)
Engadget posted photos of the Motorola SLVR L7 -- an upcoming cellphone which also incorporates iTunes support. Nothing too unexpected it has just about the same user interface as the ROKR E1 (though the menus are slightly less sluggish) and it has Bluetooth, a VGA digital camera, and a TransFlash memory card slot for storing up to 100 iTunes tracks, but there is one real surprise: the phone...
Apple to Sell 37 Million iPods by end of 2005?
One analyst believes that Apple have sold as many as 37 million iPods by the end 2005. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote: 'We expect the iPod to continue to be a foundation for growth in other parts of Apple's business, and we expect that by the end of calendar 2005 more than 37 million iPods will have shipped, providing Apple with a greater scope of awareness for various products'...
BBC to Offer Videos Online?
The Independent reports on on-demand video content such as that provided by the iTunes Music Store. In less than 20 days, Apple announced they had sold more than 1 million videos. The question of a more extensive lineup remains.
The Independent reports that the BBC is planning to offer "most of its programming" available for customers: In Britain the BBC is planning a similar service by...
iTunes Competitors Line Up (Samsung, Sprint)
The Korea Times reports that Samsung is currently in talks with their partners to "debute a service program like iTunes of Apple. Our No. 1 priority is to help customers use our products with ease".
Ironically, Samsung is the company which is supplying Apple with the NAND Flash memory for the iPod nano....
iTunes Video Sales Top 1 Million
Apple announced today that the iTunes video sales have exceeded 1 million videos since October 12th. "Selling 1 million videos in less than 20 days strongly suggests there is a market for legal video downloads," Steve Jobs, chief executive officer, said in a statement. "Our next challenge is to broaden our content offerings, so that customers can enjoy watching more videos on their computers and...
Jobs Leveraging Pixar Deal to Get TV Content?
The Independent has an article about Steve Jobs with an interesting perspective.
Of note, however, is a tidbit about Apple's current deal with Disney to provide Television content for the iTunes Music Store. According to the Independent, Steve Jobs is leveraging Pixar-Disney negotiations in order to obtain the TV content for iTunes: Disney gave in to Pixar, and is presently trying to woo it...
MacRumors Launches 'Mac Guides'
The new MacRumors Guide pages are a companion to the MacRumors website and forums. The Guide pages are based on the MediaWiki software which drives the popular Wikipedia encyclopedia. The software is designed to provide a collaborative environment for users to continuously edit entries to provide both accurate and up to date information about the many topics.
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Behind the Motorola ROKR iTunes Phone
Wired offers an detailed history behind the create of the ROKR iTunes phone and the dynamics between Apple, Motorola and the cellular phone companies. When Jobs and Ed Zander, CEO of Motorola, announced 15 months ago that the two companies were going to partner on a new phone, people imagined a hybrid of two of the coolest products in existence: Apple's iPod and Moto's RAZR. For months the new...
Generous Replacements for 5G iPods?
Appleinsider claims that Apple has issued a message to its channel partners to replace any 5th Generation (iPod with Video) that exhibits "any type of hardware failure"... including those that would be classified as abuse... for a limited time.
According to the rumor site, Apple is attempting to preemptively avert any quality complaints for the new device. Apple has been under significant...
Sony-BMG on iTMS Australia?
SMH.com.au reports that Sony-BMG and Apple may be coming to an agreement to supply Sony-BMG's music on the new Australian iTunes Music Store.
The iTunes Music Store for Australia was launched on Tuesday, October 25th. But notably absent was the music from Sony-BMG. According to previous reports, pricing disputes had led to the long delays in the launch of the Australian music store....
IBM on PowerPC 970MP Power Savings
ZDNet and eWeek report on a presentation by Norman Rohrer, and IBM engineer at the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose.
Roher discussed the IBM PowerPC 970MP which is being used by Apple in the latest round of PowerMac revisions. IBM describes the new chip as a "low-power, high-performance" processor.
The 970MP houses two processor cores each with its own CPU, AltiVEC unit and 1MB of cache. ...
NVidia 7800 GT Option, More Dual Core G5 Benchmarks
Apple is now offering the NVidia GT video card as a Build to order option on the PowerMac G5 configurations. The video card from NVidia utilizes the new PCI Express architecture introduced on the new PowerMacs.
The 7800 card is a $400 upgrade for Dual 2.0 G5 buyers and a $350 upgrade for Dual 2.3/Quad 2.5 buyers. Apple provides a comparison chart of the various cards offered on the new...
