Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:29:16PM +0900, Jani PATOKALLIO wrote:
> > That said, I wouldn't mind having a barcode scanner embedded in
> > my phone, it would be just another nifty but largely useless
> > feature. Good luck convincing the phone manufacturers though...
>
> Might be cool for comparison shopping in the real world also
> possibly used with location information. Ie, scan a new leather
> jacket that you like in a store, you could get info back on
> suggested retail price in your currency (suppose you were abroad)
> and if perhaps two doors away there was another store with the
> same jacket for cheaper and so on...
But who gets to decide the URL for the barcode? In the CueCat
model some central authority, namely ":CRQ" (which, incidentally,
has to be the most obnoxious piece of marketroidese I've seen
in a long time)... and of course :CRQ wants the barcode owners
to pay for the privilege of having the barcode map to an URL
specified by them, as opposed to (say) a site that outlines
why product X sucks. Dig through www.spam.com all you want, you
aren't going to find the can of a price of Spam in there --
it's not in the manufacturer's advantage to advise you about
the MSRP, their share is the same whether you pay $1 or $100.
Cheers,
--
Jani PATOKALLIO / jpatokal@iki.fi / +81 90 7722 3557
Sanpo Laboratory, Mechano-Informatics Dept., University of Tokyo
ヤニ・パトカリオ / jani@sanpo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp / 090 7722 3557
東京大学、工学系研究科、機械情報工学科、算法設計研究室
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Received on Tue Nov 21 05:40:45 2000