According to bieMedia, and online marketing and media company, the QR code will die before it really took off. They are claiming that these codes will actually be replaced by mobile video search, which according to them, is faster and provides a better interactive experience.
“QR Codes were introduced as a quick extension to modernize the bar code,” says bieMEDIA CEO Jon Barocas. “The issue is that these ‘squares’ take up valuable real estate on a business’ marketing collateral or even act as an eye sore to the storefront.”
While its understandable that he believes this, because his company has invested in Mobile Acuity, which is a mobile visual search company, it makes perfect sense. QR codes have gained some minor popularity with marketers, but more and more research shows that most consumers don’t really give a damn about the product. In fact, this survey says that even those who scan mobile QR codes, don’t do anything with them.
Business Inisider seems to have already declared QR Codes Dead:
But in practice, they don’t often work out that way. Mobile barcodes can be confusing and can waste time. And as mobile technology progresses, they probably aren’t even necessary. Most people, before scanning their first barcode, have to download scanning apps manually and figure out how to use them. Then, each time there’s a barcode to scan, they have to make sure they’re using the right scanning app for the right barcode. That’s because different types of barcodes, like Microsoft’s “Tag” codes, don’t always work in all the same apps.
Since technology is growing so fast, it makes a lot more sense that just normal images will replace QR codes. Visual search makes a lot more sense, since a almost any company can use a unique logo or photo to represent themselves and direct consumers to any site they want with that image. In fact, Google has even has their own visual search product.
