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iphone users are so gullible - when you are all said and done with paying for your iphone and your service contract and your 'redlaser' app, you're over 2k in t
by ticktock 17y ago
iphone users are so gullible - when you are all said and done with paying for your iphone and your service contract and your 'redlaser' app, you're over 2k in the hole, and for what? a 'mobile cuecat'?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
- warfangle 17y agoRight, because RedLaser totally: -Uses it's own special kind of barcode -Doesn't let people compare prices locally -Is simply a barcode-encoded URL /sarcasm Cuecat was a device that was about a decade too soon. We needed ubiquitous mobile computing (not just mobile phones, you see) before something like this could truly come into its own.
- ticktock 17y agoI saw the special barcode for the cuecat in the wikipedia article but I don't remember it being restricted to only those types of barcodes. I'm pretty sure it worked for any barcode. It also says they were trying to avoid patent infringement. I suppose that patent has expired (cuecat was 10years ago! wow), but now that redlaser is worth //evil-voice One Million Dollars!, they may have to pay the piper. So again - you think it's economical to invest 2k into a device that lets me save 40 cents on Ketchup?
- jcl 17y agoI don't understand your assumption that users are buying iPhones only to use this app and not, say, to also make phone calls and browse the web. In the past, people bought iPhones even when this app was not available, and they paid more. You should be asking instead if it's economical to invest $2 into an app to save 40 cents on ketchup. (And, if you plan to make more than five such purchases, the answer is "yes".)
- DannoHung 17y agoYeah, once you install this app you can't use the internet or the phone or the music playback or any of your other apps. It really freakin stinks!
- ticktock 17y agodownmodded- totally not cool