I bet its about the “opportunity cost aesthetics”—-Apple thinks QR codes are butt ugly. See also the round App Clips codes recently introduced, and the very lat

I bet its about the “opportunity cost aesthetics”—-Apple thinks QR codes are butt ugly. See also the round App Clips codes recently introduced, and the very late (I bet teeth-grittingly reluctant) introduction of QR scanning in the first-party iOS Camera app.