Tech changes decently quickly so sometimes it is easy to just stick with what you know. Today I was standing in my driveway trying to open the garage door with my phone. After about a min of going thru random menus and whatever I said 'whatever' and just went thru the house and pushed the button. I will figure it out when I am not in a rush. Also you hand me a QR code I am going to be a little annoyed but also grateful at the same time. The annoying part is getting out the app to do it. The grateful part is not having to type something like that into the tiny interfaces we like to use for phones.
Also time to share one of my favorite shortcuts I use all the time. ctrl enter while in the title bar will add https://www. and the .com bit on the end of any string. Works in firefox and chrome.
Then your tech support simply changes to guiding people in the use of QR codes.
Those numbers have to be very low now that we are post 2020.
I am an it professional.
I've used qr codes maybe... 6 times, ever?
With probably 50% success rate before I give up.
I know for a fact that literally nobody else in my in law family of middle class Canadians has ever used a single one.
Anecdata of course, but if we're sharing assumptions... :-)
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Tech changes decently quickly so sometimes it is easy to just stick with what you know. Today I was standing in my driveway trying to open the garage door with my phone. After about a min of going thru random menus and whatever I said 'whatever' and just went thru the house and pushed the button. I will figure it out when I am not in a rush. Also you hand me a QR code I am going to be a little annoyed but also grateful at the same time. The annoying part is getting out the app to do it. The grateful part is not having to type something like that into the tiny interfaces we like to use for phones.
Also time to share one of my favorite shortcuts I use all the time. ctrl enter while in the title bar will add https://www. and the .com bit on the end of any string. Works in firefox and chrome.
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Really? I've been in the tech world for over a decade but think I've personally scanned only a single QR code in the wild.
For people outside our bubble they basically don't exist, though I'll admit this is probably quite location dependant.
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Open camera and point here. Done.
Until you realize grandma has a spam version of camera she installed that doesn't support QR codes