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
Commodore Amiga Emulator for iOS Demoed, Coming to App Store
TouchArcade reveals a first hands-on with an upcoming Commodore Amiga emulator from mobile developer Manomio. Manomio is the developer behind the Commodore 64 emulator for iOS that made headlines after it was originally rejected from the App Store. Manomio's Commodore 64 emulator eventually returned to the App Store after some favorable changes in App Store policy.
As with its Commodore ...
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Apple Starts Rolling Out 90 Second Song Previews in iTunes
Apple has started rolling out 90 second song previews on iTunes tonight. The offering is presently sporadic with not every album, or even every eligible song on an album, offering a full 90 second preview.
According to a previous letter sent to music labels, Apple intends to offer 90 second previews on all songs longer than 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Songs shorter than this length will...
Epic Games Launches 'Infinity Blade' - an Unreal-Based Game for iPhone and iPad
Epic Games has released their first full iOS game tonight. Infinity Blade is a gesture-based fighting game that is based on the company's Unreal Engine 3. Epic showed and released a free technology demo of the engine at Apple's 2010 Fall Media event, and has since taken the time to flesh it out into a full game.
TouchArcade reviews the new release and describes it as a "must have" but...
Mac App Store Still on Track for January 2011 Launch?
Despite some recent predictions to the contrary, The Loop claims the Mac App Store won't be launching until January 2011. Reports earlier this week claimed Apple would launch the Mac App Store on December 13, ahead of the holiday shopping season. However, according to my sources, Apple will launch the store in the new year.The previous report pegged the launch as early as December 13th. The...
iPad 2 to Ship by End of February 2011?
Digitimes reports that Foxconn Electronics factories have recently been notified that they will ship Apple's next generation iPad within the next 100 days with initial shipments to reach 400,000-600,000 units. The sources pointed out that the iPad 2 will ship as soon as the end of February in 2011. Apple originally planned to start mass production in January, but because the device's firmware is ...
Mac App Store to Launch As Early as December 13th?
AppleTell claims that Apple may be targeting a launch of the Mac App Store as early as December 13th. An inside source has just told us that Apple is targeting a Monday, December 13th launch of the Mac App Store. The company apparently told developers to have their software prepared for a launch as early as Monday the 6th of this month, but our contact would be shocked if that happened at this...
NVIDIA/Intel Settlement Could Boost MacBook and MacBook Air Processor Speeds
Bloomberg reported last week that Intel and NVIDIA are in talks aimed at settling the legal dispute between the companies. The legal issues which began late last year
Apple Stops PhotoFast's MacBook Air SSD Replacement?
9to5Mac claims that Apple has asked Taiwanese company PhotoFast to stop sales of their SSD upgrade kits for the new MacBook Air. Now, according to some sources close to the company, Apple phoned PhotoFast last week and had them stop all sales of their new MacBook Air SSD upgrades. PhotoFast is complying with Apple's request for them to stop production of the product and one of the leading...
Cyber Monday Sales from Apple and Other Mac Retailers
Apple is offering a small selection of accessories on sale for Cyber Monday. Apple had discounted some of their Macs, iPads and iPod Touches on Black Friday, but the sales lasted for that day only.
3rd party retailers have continued their sales going from Black Friday through today: MacConnection appears to have the most substantial discounts for the majority of Macs by combining instant...
Next iPad to Add Five New Features including USB Port?
Digitimes relays a report from Chinese-language Economy Daily News which claims that Apple's next generation iPad will add 5 distinct new features. The newspaper cites industry sources for the information.
The five new features include "video phone, better mobility, USB port, new display technology and 3-axis gyroscopes."
The gyroscope, video phone (FaceTime) and better mobility...
Black Friday 2010: List of Apple and 3rd Party Discounts on Apple and Mac Products
Apple has officially unveiled their U.S. Black Friday sales for their online and retail stores. The discounts are in line with past year events, around 8% depending on the product.
- iMac ($101 Discount across all models)
- MacBook Pro ($101 Discount across all models)
- MacBook Air ($101 Discount on 13" Models%)
- iPod Nano ($11 Discount on 8GB, $21...
Thanksgiving Roundup: Apple Buys Land, New MacBooks in April, App Store Sales, Black Friday Prices
Mercury News reports that Apple has purchased 98 acres of land in Cupertino which was owned by HP: Apple's latest acquisition is the longtime Cupertino campus of rival tech giant Hewlett-Packard, the Mercury News learned Wednesday. HP announced over the summer that it planned to move out of that site, which it had occupied for decades, as it consolidates operations at its Palo Alto headquarters...
Upcoming djay for iPad - Taking Full Advantage of iOS 4.2 Audio Features
When the iPad was first announced, one of the most exciting aspects of the device was that developers now had a large multi-touch platform to develop cool new apps. In particular, the possibility of DJ applications with multi-touch scratching and mixing captured some people's imaginations, but for a number of reasons those full-fledged apps never really arrived.
The primary reason is that ...
Toshiba Introduces MacBook Air 'Blade-Type' SSDs to Mass Market
Toshiba announced today the introduction of a "new form factor" in high capacity solid-state storage called the "Blade X-gale" series. MacRumors readers will recognize the small SSD sticks as the same product that is used in Apple's new MacBook Air. Toshiba supplies these parts to Apple and is now offering the product to the mass market. Available now, the new drives are offered in...
Apple Discontinues Xserve, Only Available Until January 31st
As noted by MacGeneration, Apple has announced it will be discontinuing the Xserve as of January 31, 2011. The note appears on Apple's site and links to a PDF titled "Xserve Transition Guide". In the guide, Apple explains that they will not be developing a future version of the Xserve. Apple will not be developing a future ...
Apple Begins Accepting Mac App Store Submissions
Apple has started accepting Mac Apps for their upcoming Mac App Store. The Mac App Store was announced in October as part of Mac OS X Lion's feature set. Apple quickly revealed that the Mac App Store would also be coming to existing Mac OS X Snow Leopard users as well and would launch in 90 days from the time of the announcement.
The Mac App Store mirrors many of the submission guidelines ...
Apple Drops Price of Mac Mini Internationally
Apple has quietly dropped the price of the Mac mini in international markets this morning. According to Macerkopf.de, the change is reflected in all markets not priced in U.S. dollars, though Australia seems unaffected.
In the UK, prices of the two Mac mini models dropped from 649 to...
iOS 4.2 GM: New Multitasking Bar, MobileMe Login Changes
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Apple's new iOS 4.2 GM comes with a few additional changes. The multitasking bar now adds both Volume and Brightness controls for fast access. Also pictured is the new AirPlay button (on right).
4.2 GM on left, 4.1 on right
We're hesitant to read too much into this just yet, but there has been one interesting change in iOS 4.2 noted first by a tech company in...
Apple Releases iOS 4.2 Golden Master to Developers
Apple has released the Golden Master (GM) version of iOS 4.2 to developers this evening. The GM build is typically the final shipping build that will eventually reach customers. According to MacStories, AirPlay has returned as a feature to YouTube playback -- a feature that was inexplicably missing in the last developer release.
Apple originally detailed the upcoming features of iOS 4.2...
Apple Considering BOKU (Mobile Payment Company) Acquisition
TechCrunch reports that both Apple and Google are in early talks with mobile payments company Boku. Boku is a startup company that has partnered with mobile carriers to allow customers to purchase goods using their mobile phones.
Customers simply enter their mobile phone number when looking to purchase an item and a confirmation message is sent to their device. The resulting charges are...
