From a research show that only 6 percent of Americans or even a qr bar code is scanned with the smartphone. Young men are the most likely to have with the smartphone such a barcode to scan.
In total, 14 million Americans in the month of June, a qr-code scan with their phones, according to research conducted by market research firm Comscore. That is 6.2 percent of the total population with a mobile phone. Men with 60,5% the most represented gender with the part of the mobile users that sometimes qr codes scans. When age is looked at is the category of 25 to 34 years with 36,8 percent, the largest group.
Qr codes are the last few years more and more famous, has become, thanks to the advent of smartphone applications. By means of scanning a qr code with the built-in camera on the phone, for example, can automatically send a link to be opened. Companies can do this in an ad to someone by sending it to their website.
The Dutch Mint recently launched a coin with a qr code on it. Not before was there a coin made with such a barcode on it. It is unclear how many Dutch qr-codes to scan. To use qr-codes to scan, a smartphone with necessary software required. Meanwhile, we have many Dutch people who did: last year, almost 1.5 million of smartphones sold in the Netherlands. That there were in the first half of last year, 821.000, thus marktvorser Gfk.