One little GDC note in passing - I noticed a surprisingly high number of folks with Apple laptops. I did an ad-hoc survey by walking from one end of the convention centre to the other, counting non-apple laptops and resetting to zero when I saw an Apple one. One average I got to about 6. A ratio of 6:1 isn’t bad - definitely larger than Apple’s alleged market share.

The uk-mac-dev mailing list, which Richard and I organise, has affiliated itself with Cocoa Heads, to form a London Cocoa Programmers’ Group.

Effectively we’re still meeting at the same place and same time (second Monday of each month, 19:30, at Lord Moon of the Mall, Whitehall), but the two groups have enough overlap that it seems sensible to combine our efforts.

Next meeting is tonight - feel free to join us!

Here’s a nice article from a guy who worked at Metrowerks, and then at Apple. He gives some interesting perspective, a lot of which confirms the worst fears (at the time) of anyone who was watching Metrowerks from the outside…