MacRumors
 The logo of MacRumors, a stylized apple featuring a question mark | |
Type of site | News website |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Glen Allen, Virginia |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Owner | MacRumors.com, LLC |
| Founder(s) | Arnold Kim |
| Editor | Eric Slivka |
| Key people |
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| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional, required to post on forums |
| Users | 1.09 million forum usersa |
| Launched | February 24, 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
| a Total forum members (October 2022).[1] | |
MacRumors.com is a website that aggregates Mac and Apple-related news and rumors. The site launched on February 24, 2000, in Richmond, Virginia, and is owned by Arnold Kim.[2][3] By consolidating reports and cross-referencing claims, MacRumors aims to keep track of the rumor community and the website is updated daily with new articles. MacRumors is also known for occasionally breaking original stories, such as revealing the name of the iPad in 2010.[4] The tagline of the website is "News and Rumors You Care About". MacRumors is a prominent website within the Apple community, featuring a forum with over 1,000,000 members.[5]
Content
MacRumors is home to a large Mac-focused forum site with over 1,088,487 members and over 30,000,000 forum posts as of October 2022.[5] The site hosts a specialized Buyer's Guide that recommends timeframes for purchasing Apple devices based on the products' last update.[6]
Business
As of April 30, 2012, according to Quantcast, MacRumors receives an average 65,890,912 page views globally per month, and 7,567,679 visitors per month globally.[7] Website traffic often increases dramatically during Apple events, such as WWDC.[citation needed]
Sister sites
TouchArcade is a mobile game news website that launched in 2008.[8] Arnold Kim of MacRumors worked on the site.[2] Kim also runs AppShopper, making the three "sister sites".[9]
See also
References
- ^ "MacRumors Forums". MacRumors. Archived from the original on October 23, 2022. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
- ^ a b Stelter, Brian (July 21, 2008). "My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors". The New York Times. Retrieved August 11, 2008.
- ^ Frommer, Dan (July 13, 2008). "Nephrologist To Mac Blogger: The Unlikely Career Path Of MacRumors' Arnold Kim". Business Insider. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
- ^ X. Chen, Brian (February 23, 2010). "Arnold Kim Celebrates 10 Years as Apple Rumor King". Wired. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
- ^ a b "MacRumors Forums". MacRumors. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
- ^ "MacRumors Buyer's Guide". MacRumors. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
- ^ "Macrumors.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast". quantcast.com.
- ^ "TouchArcade Needs Your Help, Please Support Our Patreon". TouchArcade.
- ^ "Review: TouchArcade for iPhone". macstories.net.
External links
- MacRumors – official site