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Apple tells app devs to use IPv6 as it's 1.4 times faster than IPv4

• cocktailpeanuts 6y ago
  Can someone clarify? does this mean they will assign an IPv6 addresses to every device, including iPhone?
  • p1mrx 6y ago
    The pie chart shows that 46% of Apple devices currently have an IPv6 address, but among those devices, 43% (20/46) of connections are still using IPv4 due to limitations on the server side. In theory, Apple could deploy an IPv6-in-IPv4 VPN to give every device an IPv6 address, but that would make IPv6 slower than IPv4, and the telcos probably wouldn't be happy about losing their ability to inspect traffic.
• pphysch 6y ago
  Massive-scope metrics like this are one of the positives of highly-managed ecosystems like Apples. But how transferable are the results vs. being idiosyncratic of Apple's implementations of network libraries, drivers?
  • wmf 6y ago
    It's the network not iOS. If there was that much fat in the iOS IPv4 stack they would have fixed it by now.