Recently, there are media reports that more and more customers go to home appliance stores to buy "universal remote controls", either returning empty-handed or buying counterfeit ones. Experts say that the universal remote control is simply not applicable to all electrical appliances. In fact, this news reflects from one aspect that consumers have a great desire for "universal accessories". In response to this strong consumer demand, some products or accessories are more compatible, why not?

    Compatibility is not high, some accessories for the purpose of "convenience", but not "convenience". Think about it carefully. Air conditioners, TVs, DVDs, stereos... all need remote controls, and each home appliance needs one. In this way, there are multiple remote controls in a room, more than telephones.

    It is understood that the normal service life of the TV is more than 10 years, but the TV remote control is used frequently, and it is easy to break, and it can be used for seven or eight years if it is well protected. Most of it can only be used for three or four years. After visiting several major home appliances and other shopping malls, the reporter found that it is very difficult to buy remote controls for TVs and air conditioners that were popular a few years ago. Based on the average of three remote controls per household in this city, the market capacity of remote controls in Shanghai is as high as 15 million. The direct consequence of the serious contradiction between supply and demand is that inferior remote controls flood the market.

    It's not just the danger of counterfeit goods. If you think about it again, the accessories are not compatible, and each manufacturer produces each, which is undoubtedly a great waste of social resources. The current mobile phone chargers, not to mention the incompatibility between different brands, even the different products of the same brand, the accessories are also incompatible with each other, if you change a mobile phone, you have to update the charger as well. The same is true for ballpoint pens. Ballpoint pens have a variety of appearances, although they are beautiful, but the refills inside are also ever-changing. Later, after a ballpoint pen ran out of oil, the pen was also useless. With this calculation, there are a lot of penholders and chargers thrown away, and the material waste for producing these products is huge, not to mention the time and manpower required for production.

    In fact, the demand for "universal accessories" is so strong, why don't businesses aim at this business opportunity? Rather than spend more manpower and material resources on researching new products, it is better to "drill" in and study the lesson of "universal accessories" well and improve the compatibility of accessories. Wouldn't it be possible to have more consumers? Even if it can't really achieve "omnipotence", even if it is "Qianneng" or "Baineng", putting the needs of the people first, the products will be marketable.