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Ever since I started seeing QR codes I, admittedly with a lack of interest anyway, just assumed that the iPhone/Android/Blackberry cameras all automatically det
by artursapek 15y ago
Ever since I started seeing QR codes I, admittedly with a lack of interest anyway, just assumed that the iPhone/Android/Blackberry cameras all automatically detect the code and act on it in the built-in camera app, since it seemed like such a standard. It was disappointing to learn that wasn't really the case, and there's a bunch of competing third-party apps for doing it. It's amazing that it's gotten as far as it has without any large companies pushing it (that I'm aware of).
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I should also add, I've never seen a person scanning one.
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- franze 15y agoif you wanna see people scanning QR codes, look no further, there is a website for that: http://replycam.com/browse.php http://replycam.com/browse.php
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- artursapek 15y agoHahah wow. They seem to mostly be indoor shots. I guess I've just never seen anyone scanning one on a billboard or in a magazine in public.
- masklinn 15y ago> It's amazing that it's gotten as far as it has without any large companies pushing it (that I'm aware of). It's not being pushed much in the US. It's been created by a subsidiary of Toyota and is ubiquitous in Japan. It's also widely used in South Korea and (at the very least) Netherlands. I don't think there's any phone there which lacks native QRCode support in japan, and just about any poster has a QRCode on it linking to the relevant page.
- rickmb 15y ago> widely used in [...] Netherlands No it isn't. It's widely pushed, for a value of "widely" that comes down to "you're likely to spot a few". Nobody actually uses them on the consumer end.
- artursapek 15y agoOh interesting, I thought it was our own creation. I wonder if Japan/SK had the same arguments about it as we are now before it became ubiquitous.