Why would anyone feel good about a free app that doesn't work? What we're saying is that this app does work. It also happens to be free. So the only difference is how you bitch about it, you can participate as a user in the development of a free app or complain to the company that sells a non free app. Perhaps you should find one that costs money.A app that works, I'd pay for. But a app that doesn't work yet is free is like pissing into the wind. Feels good but ya really don't like the results....
Perhaps I use it differently but I also understand how they work. No camera is going to be ideal compared to a proper laser. There are all kinds of bar codes and only some of them are product codes that have a chance to be used for a consumer lookup. The others are routing, tracking, internal, yada codes. You can find URLs, plain text, all kinds of codes.
I have no interest in scanning a can of pop (soda to you yanks) but when I scanned a utility cart at the hardware store it worked perfectly. It found the product and told me the price range in my area.
The better codes for camera based scanners is the qrcode you might see sometimes around here. Those are much easier to scan and there are better consumer databases for it in places like Japan where it is used for this kind of app. We don't have the qrcode product codes available here to do it better. Amazing that it does it this well but we're doing it the hard way.
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