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
Sony branded Palm?
This article discusses Sony's jump into the PDA market with a Palm-based unit.
"This fall, Sony will introduce a sub-$200 PDA with color display, limited wireless Internet access, multimedia capabilities and add-on storage capabilities through its Memory Stick technology, sources say."
This comes as a slight surpise, as Sony announced that it will be licensing Psion's EPOC OS...
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Mac OS Beta?
This CNet article
explores Apple's previous Mac OS X promise vs the
public Beta to be delivered this summer.
"Nonetheless, some of the marketing and channel
issues surrounding the upcoming OS are now in flux.
Schiller said Apple has not determined whether the
public beta will come out as a shrink-wrapped product
or whether Apple will charge for it. In January, Apple
stated...
WWDC Keynote
MacNN and Apple's Hot News reports:
Quicktime 5 due summer
Webobjects cut to $699 and will be 100% Java
Mac OS X Public Beta at MacWorld. 1.0 Final in Jan 2001
DP4 Release to Developers
Maya for Mac OSX
Interestingly, MacNN also states "Hardware tomorrow? - During the keynote, Phil Schiller alluded to a possible new-hardware announcement...
WWDC News?
Apple's WWDC kicks off today, with the Keynote currently in progress. Unfortunately, Macrumors is located on the east coast... so we're waiting for news like the rest of you.
MacNN and Go2Mac claim to have "live" coverage. Add our own links to news items in...
iMovie 2, Final Cut, and Quicktime 5 info
MacMike writes "You have probably already found out but I thought I would let you know what I found out out iMovie 2.0 that is coming out shortly.
After talking to some of the Apple Engineers over the last couple of days I have found out more then I had ever hoped for..."
(continued - click Read More below)"iMovie 2.0 is being developed all in house. It will be OS X Native as...
Extended Company Store Hours
Matt writes "from http://www.apple.com/developer/wwdc2000
WWDC Hot News
Extended Apple Company Store Hours
Get ready to shop, folks. For the entire week of WWDC, Apple's on-campus Company Store will have extended hours by remaining open until 8pm for your shopping enjoyment. The Company Store carries a wide variety of software and hardware products for your Mac, in addition to...
Q&A Analysis of Apple
The Motley Fool posted a Q&A on Apple... this article gives a positive stockmarket outlook on Apple.
However, one of Apple's key advantages is the innovative nature of its products and employees. I think that continuous innovation will build more momentum for the company and demand for its products.
Curiously, guess who owns the domain name "http://www.buyaapl.com"? Apple, of...
WWDC Satellite Broadcast
MacNN and HolyMac reported today that the WWDC Keynote will be broadcast via satellite despite previous reports that it would not be:
From MacNN: The keynote is scheduled for Monday at 1:00 pm EDT on C-band satellite at Telstar 5 (T5) Transponder #11; T5 is located at 97W. GlobeCast did not yet have the Ku responder chosen, and interested parties should contact GlobeCast at (800)...
New Product T-Shirts?
JasonR writes "Check out http://
www.apple.com/thinkdifferent/tshirts/ - they say that
new products are coming - beginning May 15, 2000 -
same as WWDC. "
Good Eye. This could be a coincidence -- but the more
interesting conclusion is that it could mean that there
are some new product annoucements...
Flashback: WWDC 1999
If Macrumors.com existed last year, we would have reported on Apple's two new Powerbooks last year, iMacs on sale at Sears, and Mac OS 8.6 after 1999's...
WWDC Predictions
MacWeek and MacOS Rumors provide their own predictions for what's to come at WWDC.
MacOS Rumors claims 100% probability of multiprocessor G4 announcements - which is a safe bet, as the Apple's WWDC list of sessions references multiprocessor discussions....
More Apple PDA rumblings...
This post to Appleinsider's forums quotes an email from Think Secret's mailing list which claims to have independant confirmation of Apple's PDA plans.
I am helping my school district with "Digital Backpack" project. When the county school system talked to apple they told them about a small, highly portable, handheld device! I do not know the details but this might be some evidence to...
Voodoo 5 for Mac
Last night's xlr8yourmac.com's page quotes a letter from 3dfx regarding the Mac Voodoo 5 AGP card.
"So - with clear intent - we are showing off a dual-chip, AGP, Mac Voodoo5 at E3. There are no technical issues to releasing such a product for the Mac. None at all. "
He goes on to ask readers to try to convince Apple to unbundle the Rage 128 AGP to allow users to BTO a 3dfx...
Gates may be one of the richest...
Bill Gates may be the 2nd richest man in the world, but it takes a real man to be the lowest paid CEO of a major US corporation - last year, Jobs held that honor, to the disappointment Richard Kinder of Kinder Morgan Inc., a natural gas company.
This Mac Central story quotes Kinder: "I was very frustrated that I was not the lowest...
Mac DivX?
You may have seen this on MacNN or MacOS Rumors- but since it's such a good cause, we feel it's worth mentioning again...
FlashingYellow is holding a DivX plug-in programming contest for DivX playback. Winner gets $5000 and a Apple iMac DV Special Edition.
In case you've missed it (see DivX on the Rise), DivX is a basically a hacked codec that's been available for windows. It's a hack ...
New Diamond Rio 600 due June 22
For the Gadget freaks out there... Amazon is advertising a new Diamond Rio
600 which is due June 22,2000.
The stylish redesigned unit only has 32mb of ram --
however, it "can accept additional memory backpacks
to expand memory up to 340...
Palm V Hack - lightup buttons and screen
Seen on Smaller.com
-- This Japanese page shows pictures of a hacked Palm V with lightup buttons as well as a backlit writing area.
...
User Feedback: Green Screen 512ke
Trey Christensen writes "I have a mac 512ke with a green screen.
It is not hard to make one. you take the green phosphor picture tube from one of the little Apple IIc compact monitors (9" just like the mac one) and just swap it out for the macs. monochrome picture tubes are a continuous coating of one color, so these swaps arent difficult. now a color tube swap is a biotch to line up all ...
The Powerbook G4: Is It Realistic?
Jake Sargent writes "Is the Powerbook G4 really realistic anytime soon? Kenneth Trifaro exams the possibilites about why or why not we may be seeing a Powerbook G4 anytime soon. Give it a read at TheMacMind, "...
Dear Windows Users: 'We Love You'
MacNN has a feature about a German Ad Angency who ran a pro-Mac ad without Apple's authorization.
Now Apple is threatening legal action. The company (Springer & Jacoby) paid $13,800 out of pocket to run the ad which read "Dear Windows user: 'We Love You'" with the Apple logo and "Think Different" written below. While it's understandable that Apple would like to protect it's trademarks,...
