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by sneak 3865 days ago
Only a tiny fraction of consumers actually believe that. For the vast majority of users, Internet == 80+443, and 25+983 for people with smartphones.
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Systems do not change just because a sufficient mass of people believe otherwise.
Gamers would disagree.
Good point - Skype and FaceTime too.
As much as I hate Skype, it does seem to have a magical ability to connect in even the most restrictive networks.
Gamers are a tiny fraction of consumers.
Games made more then Hollywood last year, so I would suspect this is still a large audience.
Also the audience (after possibly developers) who are willing to pay for really high speed low latency connections.
He was talking about Business class Internet not home users.