On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:27:34PM -0700, ian batten wrote:
On May 24, 7:41=A0pm, Graham Nye wrote:
I note the rise of adverts where URLs for further information are
deliberately obscured from non-smartphone users:
No, they've just made a decision that people who don't use smartphones
but who are also a potential market for their product aren't a large
enough set to worry about.

Not that QR codes are particularly useful for smartphone users either.
The time taken to get your phone out, find the app, wait for it to
start, try a few times to get it to take a picture of the stupid code -
it's just as quick to type in a short URL. And it's just plain
impossible to decode one off the side of a moving bus, for example.

QR codes are utterly pointless for everything apart from stock control,
as far as I can tell.

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