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For the iPhone, you'd need an app that can read it. Google's app is probably the best for it, since it provides so much functionality otherwise as well. Consid

by cwe 15y ago

For the iPhone, you'd need an app that can read it. Google's app is probably the best for it, since it provides so much functionality otherwise as well. Considering android's marketshare, though, I think these do have the potential to take off. Well, as long as people take this guys advice and make them point to coupons, or an actual campaign, rather than the URL on the billboard. Meanwhile, I'm thinking of using them in a print book/brochure as an easy way to get to multimedia. A photo book, for example, with a QR code pointing to a relevant video. Turns a book into an app!

badclient 15y ago
The whole needing an app kills it. If its built into the native camera to recognize these codes I can really see it taking off. No more needing to type long landing page urls when you see a billboard or needing an exclusive short url when you can just point your camera and see the intended page open up on your iphone browser.
- ericflo 15y ago
  On Android that's how it is.
  - recursive 15y ago
    I just got an Android phone, and it's not. Just now, I went to this website on my computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code I took a photo of QR picture with the built in camera. Nothing. I have to use google goggles or something to interpret the QR code.
    - pyre 15y ago
      http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/GetTheReader http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/GetTheReader
      - recursive 15y ago
        That's not the point. I already have an app to do it. That's not built into the os. That's definitely an extra download.
        pyre 15y ago
        I wasn't disagreeing.
- mc32 15y ago
  To add to that idea I think is that it obviates the need to remember and recall a website name for [later] retrieval, for example.