I just so happened to be watching this video essay about OS bloat and it reminded me of what Jeff was saying about cartridges vs storage cards and I have an answer:
Cards run on an OS
Cartridges are an OS
That is to say that cartridges run in native mode and have direct access to the hardware (probably going through some libraries supplied by the hardware manufacturer). Systems with an OS give a generic black-box for the software to use and intentionally hide all of the hardware.
Obviously, systems like the Gamecube up until maybe the Wii-U did not use carts (ignoring the Super GBA thing you could plug into the GCN). The high random-access speeds of some kind of ROM (including Flash EEPROM which is obviously not ROM at all) is the other key that Jeff locked onto. But the OS is the difference between the DS and Switch.
I came in late and saw the basketball guy with the airpods and was like "he is totally 3d rendered". Rewatching it and Brad mentioned that people in chat were saying the same thing. Is it just weird video? Did they really do it? What the hell am I looking at?
Posting post-Endgame. If, in 2011, you had said to me "Thor will be a fun character and a Guardian of the Galaxy" I would have acted like I understood and then found a way to leave and tell a grownup.
Hey, finally getting around to listening to the show. It's good stuff.
I'm interested in what you have to say about video. Are you checking out AV1? What are your relationships with CDNs like? What kind of tools have you built for the producers?
BTW I'm a long time premium member and I'm pretty happy with the redesign. Keep up the good work.
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