Why does Re:Store say "1 GB = 1 billion bytes"?

Question

Online shopping

Answer 1

Because from the point of view of SI it is true.

Answer 2

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

Consumers of products of large corporations producing hard drives and flash memory cards often suffer from the current situation. When purchasing a product labeled with its real capacity, for example, 1 gigabyte or 1,000,000,000 bytes, they believe that they are purchasing a product with a capacity of 1 gibibyte or 1,073,741,824 bytes, which often leads to misunderstanding and dissatisfaction.

Answer 3

They honestly indicate the size of the Gigabyte, so that there are no complaints about the discrepancy between the size of the hard drive after formatting and that indicated on the box.

Answer 4

Picture under the cat! Too huge!

Answer 5

I’m adapting for ordinary people, but we have a kilometer of 1024 wahabytes