Comments on: QR-codes – ever likely to take off?

By: QR-codes – making the UK’s top ten | Martin Tod

QR-codes – making the UK’s top ten | Martin Tod — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:17:16 +0000

[...] QR-codes – making the UK’s top ten Posted on January 4, 2011 by Martin Just over two years ago, I posted a couple of blog-posts about QR codes – the 2-d bar-codes that can be read by some mobile phones, and got some rather robust feedback on one where I expressed some scepticism about their future. [...]

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:07:02 +0000

OCR technology is great, but there are problems with this approach:

> First, not every URL is and will be mobile compatible. There will be a long time before every website has an additional mobile site. PC Web is and will never be the same at the Mobile Web. Both mediums have their own advantages and disadvantages.

> Second, the iconic value of the QR Code is as much important as the scanning. Every QR Code basically tells you that there is “mobile content” behind it.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:14:08 +0000

Greg,

I think getting the future of the aeroplane wrong might be a slightly bigger mistake!

Don’t get me wrong – I think it’s a very interesting concept (and a good enough idea to put on my blog), but I also think there’s a risk that it gets overtaken by ‘conventional’ OCR recognition as phones get more powerful before it gets broadly taken up.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:54:32 +0000

So you doubt it will ever take off, do you? You could get famous with a comment like that. As I recall, just ahead of the WWI, someone stood in the British Parliament and declared that they saw no future for airplanes in warfare. Well you just topped him.