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I was in a group of about 10 people. 4 of them took out their phone and pointed them at the screen. Only 1 phone was able to pick up the QR code - he was sitt

I was in a group of about 10 people. 4 of them took out their phone and pointed them at the screen. Only 1 phone was able to pick up the QR code - he was sitting at an angle to the TV. He said "oh, it's for Coinbase" and immediately put his phone away. And then everyone moved on. Congrats, I guess, for getting 20M hits. How many signups did they get?

PaulHoule 5y ago
My take is that QR code scanning is basically an Apple thing because Apple has the QR reader integrated with the camera application. Try and scan QR codes on an Android phone and you will (1) have to download a third party app, (2) might find you have to download several of them before you find one that really works. The quality of these apps (in terms of "does it scan"?) is variable, but they are all stuffed with annoying ads. It's yet another problem w/ Android that Google and phone vendors should have tackled three years ago. Coinbase would have gotten better results if they had a white background and a bigger code that wasn't moving around.