The Problem With QR Codes in the West

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Roxanne Jones: QR codes are actually a great idea. They're so much easier than actually trying to type in some characters or share like account information, all that sort of thing. She says the skepticism in the West is in part because folks have been conditioned to scan them with their laptops and desktop computers. In China, there's no debate about it,. Of course, you're going to use WeChat to scan the QR code.Jones: You have to have for something to take off. It has to have some sort of standards in place.

Ben and James discuss how leverage shifts in a value chain, why WeChat is so powerful in China, and why that is a problem for Apple.

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Ben Thompson: Messaging: Mobile’s Killer App — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Slack and the State of Technology at the End of 2015 — Stratechery
Connie Chan: When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China — a16z
Ben Thompson: Peak Google — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Beyond Disruption — Stratechery
James Allworth: The Blessing of Failure — Medium
Ben Thompson: The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014 — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Why Doesn’t Apple Enable Sustainable Businesses on the App Store? — Stratechery