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
Steve Jobs Photographed Leaving Apple Today
Gossip site TMZ posted a photo of Steve Jobs spotted leaving Apple campus earlier...
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What Will be the Killer Feature of an Apple Tablet?
With the growing evidence that Apple will be releasing some sort of Apple Tablet in the next 3-6 months, analysts and writers have started speculating about the potential success or failure of such a device.
Both Gizmodo and PC World have taken the time to detail why they think that such a product will be a flop. John Gruber, however, points out that these people are incorrectly assuming...
Apple and Record Labels to Bundle Interactive Booklets with Digital Albums
Financial Times reports that Apple is working with the four largest record labels to stimulate digital album sales by bundling a new interactive booklet, sleeve notes and other interactive features with music downloads.
While digital downloads are popular, the majority of those downloads are of individual tracks rather than full albums. According to those familiar with the talks, the...
New Desktop Pictures and QuickTime X Icon in Latest Snow Leopard
Apple appears to be making some final visual tweaks to Snow Leopard in their latest developer build. Several people have noticed that Apple has provided new Desktop pictures that come with the OS. Uneasy Silence offers a complete gallery of the images:
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Another cosmetic changes include new avatars, an improved QuickTime pause button and a new QuickTime X icon:
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Augmented Reality Apps to Arrive with iPhone 3.1 Update
The L.A. Times reports that Apple will begin allowing developers access to the tools they need to produce augmented reality applications starting with upcoming iPhone OS 3.1. While there have been many impressive demos floating around showing the possibilities, these applications have used unpublished APIs which prevent them from being allowed on the App Store. Apple, however, told one...
LucasArts Releases 'Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition' for iPhone
LucasArts recently released a Special Edition of their classic adventure game Secret of Monkey Island for the Xbox and PC. The modern refresh brings much improved graphics, new musical score and voice-over acting to the 19 year old game. The game has gotten favorable reviews since it's release.
Tonight, LucasArts released an iPhone version of the game into the App Store for $7.99. First...
Apple Questioned About Netbook (Again) and App Store Pricing and Rank Lists
Apple has concluded their financial results conference call which detailed Apple's financial results for this past quarter. The conference call included the usual mix of questions about Apple's future performance as well as hopeful questions about Apple's future plans.
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Microsoft Recruits Former Apple Retail Store Exec for Retail Initiative
TechFlash reports that Microsoft has recruited former Apple real estate chief George Blankenship as a consultant for its new retail initiative. Blankenship, who previously worked at Gap, is said to be an expert at securing prime retail locations. A Microsoft representative confirmed that he's now working on real estate with Microsoft -- but as a consultant, not as a full-time employee. The...
Next Generation iPod Touch to Have Built-in Microphone and Camera?
Wired.com claims that the next generation iPod touch will contain both a video camera as well as a built-in microphone: A well-connected source tells us those rumors are on the money, and that Apple's factories in China are already manufacturing iPod Touch models with integrated cameras and microphones. An Apple spokesman declined to comment when reached by phone.In retrospect, the inclusion of a...
Apple Legal Demanded Microsoft Stop Laptop Hunters Ads
According to comments made by Kevin Turner, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, Apple's legal department reportedly contacted Microsoft to stop running the Laptop Hunters ads. According to Turner: And you know why I know they're working? Because two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal department saying, hey -- this is a true story -- saying, "Hey, you need to stop running those ads, we...
iPhone 3.1 Beta 2 Disables Unauthorized AT&T Tethering
One of the big changes discovered in the latest iPhone 3.1 Beta released tonight was that it seems to disable tethering hacks for AT&T customers in the U.S.
Tethering is the process by which you can share your iPhone's wireless internet connection with your laptop via USB or Bluetooth. This allows you to have access to the internet from your laptop, using your iPhone as a wireless modem....
iPhone 3.1 Beta 2 Released to Developers
Apple has seeded registered iPhone developers with a second beta of the 3.1 firmware. The first 3.1 firmware beta added a number of new features to the iPhone's operating system including non-destructive video edits, Voice Control over Bluetooth and a number of other minor improvements.
Release documentation show no major changes for this second beta version, but more information typically...
3D CSS Effects in Snow Leopard Safari, And More on Future of Video and Flash?
In the past, we've speculated that Apple's resistance to supporting Adobe's Flash on the iPhone and their efforts to add new features to HTML/CSS is, in part, to reduce their long term dependence on Flash.
Ajaxian points to an impressive demo by Charles Ying which shows off hardware accelerated 3D CSS Visual Effects that are now supported in Snow Leopard's Safari builds as well as the latest ...
Apple Pushes Snow Leopard Build 10A402 to Developers
Apple has seeded developers with another incremental update to Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). The latest update reportedly brings software up to Build 10A402.
This Snow Leopard Developer Preview Update is recommended for all users running the Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A394 or later. This update includes general operating system fixes for stability, compatibility, and security.No...
Google Announces Google Chrome Operating System
Google announced that it is getting into the operating system business with Google Chrome Operating System. The new OS is described as Google's attempt to "re-think" what operating systems should be.
Google Chrome OS will be an open source, lightweight operating system that is initially targeted at netbooks. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're...
Next Generation 3,1 iPod Model Detected in Logs
PinchMedia announced that they had started detecting the "iPod 3,1" version number in their analytics reporting from App Store applications. The details are as follows: - the first time an application using Pinch Analytics was run by a iPod3,1′ device occurred in late April 2009;
- applications using Pinch Analytics were run by iPod 3,1′ devices very infrequently until late May 2009, when the...
Apple to Build $1 Billion Server Farm in North Carolina
Apple's plans for a $1 billion server farm in North Carolina has been officially announced. :This opportunity is fabulous, Catawba County Economic Development President Scott Millar said at a joint meeting of county commissioners and Maiden town council. We went after it very hard.In order to attract Apple to the location, North Carolina offered a $46 million tax break over the next 10 years....
Intel Promising Faster Integrated Graphics in Next Laptops, But Fast Enough?
Fudzilla reports that the graphics performance of the integrated graphics in Intel's next-generation mobile processors (Arrandale) will exceed the performance of the current Intel mobile platform (Montevina).
As always, Intel codenames can be hard to follow. The Arrandale processors represent the mobile versions of Intel's Nehalem processors that were recently introduced into the Mac Pros. ...
Apple Celebrates First Anniversary of App Store
Apple has started celebrating the first anniversary of the App Store with a special section on iTunes [link] highlighting their favorite applications and games. While the App Store officially launched on July 11th 2008, many MacRumors readers were able to access the App Store early after the 2.0 firmware was inadvertently leaked by Apple.
The special page lists several of Apple's favorite ...
Cameras Ordered for iPod Touch? Another Case Design
TechCrunch now claims that they too have heard evidence that the next generation iPod Touch will have a built in video camera. One of our sources in Asia say that Apple has placed an order for a massive number of camera modules of the type that they include in the iPhone. These are inexpensive cameras, in the $10...
