It may be that Broadcom supplies core design components and licenses them to Apple, who then customizes those by integrating them into a larger design of their own. Lots of ARM hardware works this way.

No, cdparanoia is about reading scratched-up disks. It has nothing to do with writing. Most of the problems reading optical disks are due to some combination of physical damage and drive wear.

They say that, but I've never had one fail on me after a successful write. USB flash drives on the other hand don't have a spotless record.

I heard you like summaries...

... And you're completely ignoring the fact that most games distributed that way could also run the game while streaming most the data live from the disks themselves, so copying the whole thing to the harddrive first typically wasn't part of the time cost equation.

Wait, you think a 96 GB download over a DSL line is faster than a 30 minute round-trip to BestBuy? Do the math again.

Yea, too bad we never invented the technology for distributing a single game spread across a set of multiple disks.

I thought it was fiction.

Yea but it was completely unrecognizable in that previous iteration. Nobody was clamoring to run that shit.

People have been begging to install SteamOS on their own hardware basically since Steam Decks have been on sale.

Your wish has been granted:

If you are interested in installing SteamOS on your device and providing feedback, you can follow the instructions here.

(Link copy+pasted from here.)

Maybe they'll fix the Cirrus Logic driver next. :-p

Spoiler alert! That's gonna turn out to also be Google.

It literally could never sustain 3 companies. Xbox would have been shut down long ago if Microsoft hadn't had other revenue sources to divert. Possibly the only reason Sony managed to bump Sega off the stack was because they also had plenty of other revenue streams.

It would be trivial to simply omit all user-submitted images and video from the client for accounts designated as the "under 13" age group. Of course, that would make it really hard to make the service addictive and traffic monetize-able too.