[SequoiaHope]

https://xkcd.com/927/

I say this because most regular folks don’t even know what a gigabyte is so asking them to understand what a gibibyte is does not really “solve the problem” of consumer understanding.

[dataflow]

The xkcd isn't really relevant here, there are only 2 competing standards here and the proposal is to pick the other one.

[arghwhat]

There were two standards (different prefix definitions) - the kibi/mibi/... line of prefixes was made as a solution.

So now there are three standards.