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Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications"....


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 23:55:57 -0800


ps. I work for a division of my employer that does not yet have IPv6 support in its rather popular consumer software 
product. Demand for IPv6 from our rather large customer base is, at present, essentially nonexistent, and other 
things would be way above it in the stack-ranked backlog(s) anyway. One could argue that until we add IPv6 support 
throughout our systems, consumers will continue to demand IPv4 connectivity from operators in order to run software 
like ours, rather than us being cut off from any meaningful proportion of customers.


Yes, but unlike Skype, most popular applications have competitors and whichever competitor provides the better user 
experience will cut the others off from a meaningful proportion of their customers.

Owen



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