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Apple Finally Getting Its Game On?
Gamespot reports on the possibility that, in some way, Apple is making moves to develop games. From the article: "This week, GameSpot learned that there may be more to the Apple-game rumors than mere Mac-mad daydreams. A tech-sector recruiter contacted the GS NewsDesk with an interesting story of a prospective hire that got away. Recently, when said recruiter made an offer to a software engineer, the engineer turned the offer down--saying he was being 'heavily recruited by Apple.' According to the engineer, an Apple hiring manager named Mike Lampell is heading up a group inside Apple's storied iTunes division. The group is specifically hiring for 'C/C++ coders with a gaming background.'"
There are actually quite a few decent games available on the Mac, you just need to look in the games section of the Apple Store instead of the Mac OS X download area.
Apple often wants people with graphics experience, and typically their recruiters will ask if people have 'games' experience. Among other things, such people have been hired to do OpenGL acceleration in Quartz Extreme, CoreImage, 3D effects in Keynote and FrontRow, slide shows in iPhoto, and effects in PhotoBooth.
In short, they're not really looking for people with games experience, they're looking for people with OpenGL experience. 'Games' is just a useful keyword for finding the resumes they're looking for.