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You're saying it won for this application (UUIDs)? Universally?

What is the most common remaining use of big endian?

TCP/IP might be a reasonable example. There's a reason "network byte order" and "big endian" are the same thing.

> TCP/IP might be a reasonable example.

That's a pretty significant example of widespread usage that isn't going away soon. Perhaps the GGP was only referring to UUID applications.