QR code

“There are now hundreds of restaurants in China that have QR codes pasted to the table.”

“Now, when you think about this online and offline world, there are actually two components that are the plumbing to make the seamless mobile society work, and those two things are payments and QR codes, and they're actually very intertwined in China.”

“Did you know that all that mobile payment, all of that's happening with the camera. It's not happening with NFC. It's not happening with a smart chip. They're using their camera to scan a QR code to complete a payment.”

“Well, I think one area of app design that's very common in China, but not as seen in the States, is the usage of QR codes and the usage of the scanning feature in any app. And WeChat is actually it's heavily reliant on the scanning feature. So, for example, yo…”

“Yeah, so one of my hypotheses was that the internet's infrastructure is in English. URLs are in using Roman characters that don't really correspond to Chinese, and so a lot of even like large Chinese companies will have URLs that basically look like fxyjjj.com…”

“If you ask the average American how to even scan a QR code, even now, they probably have no idea.”

“In China, what really helped it take off is WeChat made it front and center, a primary way of adding a friend. So as opposed to having to scan for a particular username, because a username is not even required when you set up a WeChat account or knowing their …”