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by q-rews
1727 days ago
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This is like the comment “Who needs the iPhone 13’s faster CPU” I read yesterday on a random forum, except you’re on HN and you should probably know better. The reason is simple: IPv4 addresses are getting more rare and therefore more costly. |
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Ironically I think the answer here is the same: not the end customer.
Most normal people don't really need a faster CPU and wish they could still be hanging on to their beloved iPhone 4, but the developers writing software for it need customer phones to be faster, so everyone has to spend money on it.
For IPv6, not everyone needs private addresses, especially in the age of IoT. Even though NAT is not a safety feature, it's probably the main reason we only have millions rather than billions of exposed IoT devices in Shodan.
And in the age of privacy violations (and done, again, by people who write software), sharing an IP with my neighbours because of Carrier-Grade NAT doesn't sound like a bad idea to me at all anymore.
As for the lack and cost of IPv4, I'd bet that the main reason for that is not because of domestic customers, but rather because of companies, other institutions or even countries holding onto or using IPv4 addresses unnecessarily like they're candy.