Chinese market-leading online payment platforms, Alipay (owned by Alibaba, China’s largest retailer) and WeChat Pay expanded their functionality by adding the contactless payment by QR scanning feature. However, with the evolution of mobile internet sharing information through scannable codes got a new twist in China. Mostly, due to the fact that back then, mobile internet was unstable and low-performing, which doesn’t stop users from scanning codes, but interferes with further processing of scanned information. Most frequent applications of Quick Response technology originally were limited to inventory tracking, document management, product identification, and general marketing.Īlthough QR technology quickly gained popularity in 2002 in Japan, it wasn’t appreciated by people outside the high-tech warehouses. In addition to being able to store Latin and Japanese symbols, QR codes can also deposit images, emails, and even music. QR uses four standards to cover the encoding of data - numeric, alphanumeric, byte, and kanji with a possibility to use extensions. Therefore, Quick Response codes quickly became popular in automotive because of their efficiency, larger data storage capacity, and easier scannability. The company also patented the QR code technology but never turned to their patent rights in order to limit QR codes use. QR was first developed by Japanese automotive company Denso Wave in 1994, in order to manage automotive components at their warehouses using such codes.
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