"People have camera phones with web browsers now. Some things are still the same: typing URLs is not hard ... "
Actually it is.
The problem with Joel's argument is that I don't think he's ever tried to type a URL on a phone. It was an infuriating exercise in 2008 when he wrote that post, and it's an infuriating exercise today, even on the iPhone and on my Android phone.
I use a QR code as a quick link to deploy a new build of an app I'm working on to an Android device, and it's definitely easier then firing up the browser and painfully navigating to our CI server.
"People have camera phones with web browsers now. Some things are still the same: typing URLs is not hard ... "
Actually it is.
The problem with Joel's argument is that I don't think he's ever tried to type a URL on a phone. It was an infuriating exercise in 2008 when he wrote that post, and it's an infuriating exercise today, even on the iPhone and on my Android phone.
I use a QR code as a quick link to deploy a new build of an app I'm working on to an Android device, and it's definitely easier then firing up the browser and painfully navigating to our CI server.