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This just isn't true. Goodreads and similar apps have been pretty good and pretty fast at reading barcodes from books for years now, on a smartphone.
by Vrondi 4y ago
This just isn't true. Goodreads and similar apps have been pretty good and pretty fast at reading barcodes from books for years now, on a smartphone.
- mbreese 4y agoI believe the parent is talking about dedicated barcode readers (wands, scanners, etc...). Some of them are camera based. Smartphone based barcode reading software/SDKs made any dedicated reader for consumer use largely obsolete.
- PaulHoule 4y agoBefore smartphones it was the case that most non-PC devices had terrible price performance, for instance a router might have a USB port and run Linux and Samba to serve files off a USB stick but the file server was unspeakably slow. It was like the cost was 1/5 but the performance was like 1/500. Since smartphones came out, now it is smartphone and PC that beat everything else. That’s why game consoles today are made from either PC or Smartphone parts. QR codes are remarkable though because they were designed in 1994 to be read from robots moving at 30 mph so from a UX perspective QR codes are great because they scan fast. In my county there is a ‘reuse center’ that has a custom POS system that reads QR stickers with cheap readers that I think would struggle with UPC.