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
Pinnacle Buys Steinberg for $24M
Pinnacle Systems, Inc announced that it is acquiring Steinberg Media Technology AG. Steinberg is probably best known for its Cubase SX product which was recently updated for Mac OS X.
Readers will recall that Apple acquired Emagic -- another Mac pro-audio company -- in July. Emagic is the maker of Logic, which subsequently went...
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Mac OS 10.2.3 Released
In your software update...
The 10.2.3 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, and technologies: AppleScript, Classic compatibility, Disk Copy, Disk Utility, Image Capture, Mail, OpenGL, Print Center, and Rendezvous. It provides audio, disc recording, graphics, printing improvements, as well as AFP and WebDAV...
Bluetooth News at MacWorld?
MacOSRumors, based on a reader email, claims big Bluetooth announcements at MacWorld -- including Bluetooth keyboards/mice as well as hints at other Bluetooth-related announcements at MacWorld Expo.
The source of these rumors come from the recent Bluetooth developers conference. Similar rumors already were reported by The Inquirer on Dec 12th based on this same conference. The rumor from...
New iMacs on Jan 7th?
MacBidouille posts rumors about MacWorld San Fracisco...
- 1GHz iMacs, 120GB drive, 512MB Ram
- a higher priced iMac (1200-1400 euros higher)
- discontinuation of the 15" iMacs
- hardware sessions focused on wireless and mobile items.
Rumors of speed bumped iMacs (and eMacs) were first seen from this report by MacOSRumors.
Translation provided by...
MacWorld SF Keynote Event?
Apple announced that the MacWorld Expo Keynote will be broadcast and webcast live on January 7, 2003 at 9am Pacific Time.
MacCentral has the satellite coordinates, and web-viewers can use this page.
In related news, an anonymous source reports that Apple France will be rebroadcasting Steve Jobs' MacWorld San Francisco's Keynote at the Pompidou Center in Paris, France at the same time...
Microsoft Digital Hub
News.com reports that Microsoft is taking cues from Apple's digital hub strategy with its own "Microsoft Plus Digital Media Edition" to be introduced on Tuesday.
"This raises the water for tens of millions of PC users," said Richard Doherty, president of research firm Envisioneering Group. "It's a way for them to get some of the flavor and sizzle of a full media center PC from...
A Reminder to Backup...
According to this ars thread, it appears MacUpdate has suffered a hard drive failure.
MacUpdate's hard drive took a dive this morning and will no longer boot. This has caused unexpected down time for the MacUpdate site.
We are going to attempt to make the drive a secondary drive in the machine and copy the data over. If this doesn't work, we are in a very bad position, as the...
iMac/eMac Bumps
MacOSRumors claims that the iMac and eMac are due for an update at MWSF (Jan 2003):
Confirmation abounds that Apple will update the eMac and iMac with processors at up to 1GHz and a new, larger high-end widescreen display for the iMac.
The rest of the update, however, is primarily speculation and summary of recent...
IBM's 970 and Altivec
MacObserver points to this IBM newsletter on the IBM PowerPC 970 and reports that the 970 will contain an AltiVec compatible unit.
Those who have been following along will remember that IBM already confirmed this in October at the Microprocessor Forum...
Bluetooth Enabled PowerMacs and Portables?
The Inquirer posts rumors about an Apple announcment at MWSF:
And finally, saving the best for last, The INQUIRER was struck by a brilliant rumour that Apple is just about to announce that all its major machines - both desktop and laptop, apparently - will all soon boast Bluetooth compatibility.
The news will be released at the forthcoming MacWorld show in San Francisco on January...
eBay Fraud Caught
Dec 1st, keltorsori posted about an unfortunate incident in which he was victim to a $3000 fraud. He posted his plea here and to other messageboards.
With some help from the Mac internet community, it looks like the person has been caught. You can read the entire story here.
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Apple Takes Legal Action Against Leak
Apple is taking legal action against the person who leaked the PowerMac photos back in July 2002:
Apple, Cupertino, Calif., today filed a civil complaint against Jose Lopez in California Superior Court in Santa Clara County. In the complaint, the personal computer maker alleges that Mr. Lopez, who was employed as a contractor in 2001 through this year, misappropriated trade secrets and...
Quicktime 6.1 Due
MacCentral reports that Apple will be releasing a new version of Quicktime before the end of the year to support new 3G cell phones and the 3GPP technology, based on MPEG4:
"This is the next step in the delivery of a promise we made when we announced QuickTime 6 with MPEG-4 capability," Rhonda Stratton, senior product line manager, QuickTime, told MacCentral. "We started to see some...
Celebrity iPods (Madonna, Beck, No Doubt and Tony Hawk)
Users noted that limited edition Celebrity engraved iPods are available from Apple. These special iPods are not being directly promoted at Apple's site. Currently known celebrity engraved iPods appear to be:
Madonna
Beck
Tony Hawk
No Doubt...
Apple considering Marklar?
MacUser.co.uk posts a story about Apple's secret Marklar (OS X on x86) project. According to their sources, they are also claiming that Apple is considering marketing Marklar -- as an independant product:
US sources close to the project indicated that the company was actively considering selling Marklar as a retail product, effectively allowing users to replace Windows with OS X. Apple is...
OS 9 Booting Opinion and Discussion
With a trickle of rumors and tidbits flowing in, it's easy to make assumptions and leap to conclusions. Frequently, the rumor community takes on certain opinions that are repeated and are assumed to be true.
Apple's announcement that Mac OS 9 will no longer boot on new machines after Jan 2003 has led many people to jump to the conclusion that there must be some sort of major hardware shift ...
Followup on Canada and OS 9 Booting
The previous Canada story has been updated to reflect many people's observation that the employment listing does not necessarily reflect the coming of Apple Stores in Canada.
As well, one reader forwarded an email sent to Education Partners providing some confirmation of support for OS 9 into 2003:
To accommodate the last 25% who still wish to buy their Macs with OS9 installed as...
Mac OS 9 Support until June?
Macintouch reports on user information that OS 9 support will be maintained until June 2003:
According to Quark, Steve Jobs agreed to delay the policy of all new Macs only booting in OS X (after January 1st) until June of 2003. This is to accommodate the much delayed release of the OS X native version of Quark XPress 6.0. The purpose of Quark's call was to reassure the attendees that they ...
Apple Stores Canada
Previous reports of Canadian Apple Stores appear to be true.
A search at Apple's Job Search site brings up a job listing for "National Retail Sales" in Ontario:
Reponsible for driving sales and achieving a national sales quota through multi-location regional and national retailers. Initiating and implementing sales activities to drive revenue. Presenting and demonstrating Apple...
Direct Connect for Mac OS X Released
Last week we reported that Neo-Modus had posted that a Direct Connect OS X Client was in the works. Direct Connect is a P2P file trading system which claims 1 Petabyte of data shared. Their network is based on a "hub" system of individual user servers, similar to Hotline/Carracho in setup.
Jon Hess, the developer, let us know today that the Mac OS X Client has been released. Their main...
