When you go home for the New Year this year, don't buy smart home appliances for your parents; if you have already bought them, then please ask for more blessings.
A message from Yun Mi smart refrigerator has been on the hot search: a netizen spent a lot of money to buy the Yun Mi smart refrigerator, its large screen has been pushing shopping advertising information, whether it is a member, or contact the official customer service, can not close the advertisement.
This netizen, who originally wanted to catch up with the fashion and pursue a smart and beautiful life, now has the special treatment of staying at home and sitting at home to watch "elevator advertisements".
I don't know if this netizen who was almost mentally crushed by the rolling advertisements that did not give up day and night would be like Liang Chaowei in the movie, when he dreamed back in the middle of the night, he came to the smart refrigerator and said affectionately to it: "It is better that we start again." ”
Appliances, smart or retarded?
In fact, not only the smart refrigerator, not just this netizen, many of us, have been tortured by the various intellectual disability functions of smart home appliances. In particular, many people of our parents' generation have already produced psychological shadows on some so-called smart home appliances.
As early as 2020, a netizen in Anshan, Liaoning Province, used a video to record the hilarious scene of his mother and the smart refrigerator quarrel.
In the video, the 58-year-old northeastern aunt gives instructions to a refrigerator with voice recognition, asking it to alert her 13 minutes later. However, maybe auntie's Mandarin is not very standard, maybe the smart refrigerator has some ear backs. After hearing the command, the refrigerator politely replied: "Okay, I will remind you in 3 minutes." ”
The aunt repeatedly corrected and repeatedly said "13 minutes"; but the smart refrigerator just couldn't understand it, indicating "it is 3 minutes".
The harmonic baggage used in a cross-talk sentence is truly staged in the real human-machine war. The two sides competed for several rounds, playing hard to score, and the result was unbelievable. This tit-for-tat situation is like Real Madrid against Barcelona in La Liga, and like the Soviet-German side in the early stages of the Battle of Stalingrad.
The aunt, who was angry enough by the refrigerator, began a personal attack on the refrigerator in desperation. Unexpectedly, this time the refrigerator did not play the harmonic terrier again, but took care of him and actually sang the song himself.
Some netizens commented at the bottom of the video, "Don't worry, 3 minutes of noise will reach 13 minutes." "Like our family, we quarrel with smart speakers every day."
It's not just this Anshan aunt who has been pinched by smart home appliances. Uncle Li, who lives in Chongqing, has also encountered similar troubles.
Since her daughter bought a 60-inch smart TV, 83-year-old Uncle Li has lived in caution and caution all day.
"The TV set and the two TV boxes next to it, a total of 3 remote controls, do not dare to turn on, afraid of not opening." Although Uncle Li said this, he was still in trouble.
Uncle Li, who lives alone with his wife, does not know when he touched which button of the remote control, resulting in the image of the smart TV, accounting for only one-eighth of the entire TV screen.
If the TV could talk, he might say to Uncle Li, "This time, it's time to test your old man's eyesight." ”
On the Internet, people like Uncle Li are actually not in the minority. Some netizens have said: Letting the elderly at home turn on smart TVs is like letting yourself drive an aircraft carrier.
Today's smart TVs are not only complicated to operate, but also too complicated to apply internal application software.
On the Internet, a HUAWEI TV has received many consumer dissatisfaction reviews. More than one consumer said that the TV often appeared to be stuck due to too many applications.
After seeing the Caton photos provided by netizens, some netizens actually expressed their support for Huawei: "With such a Caton TV, the protagonist of the famous horror movie Sadako, this time I am afraid that I will not be able to climb out of the TV." ”
According to the "2022 China Aging TV Survey Report" recently released by the State Grid of China, 49.6% of middle-aged and elderly users feedback that they cannot directly reach the TV programs they want to watch after booting; nearly 30% of middle-aged and elderly users, when encountering problems, choose not to bother their children and choose not to watch.
In addition to smart refrigerators and smart TVs, there are many smart appliances that also bring trouble to the lives of parents.
Since having a smart rice cooker, parents have eaten sandwich rice; the remote control of the mobile phone smart washing machine allows parents to regain the washboard. Smart home appliances are making many parents return to a more primitive life.
In the face of the sudden intellectual disability of smart home appliances, many parents of the generation often throw out the soul of the three consecutive: "Who am I?" Where am I? What am I going to do? ”
If they can't solve this question, then they are likely to make a life-threatening call to you thousands of miles away. Then, while fighting with smart home appliances, he shouted like singer Sun Nan: "You come back soon, I can't bear it alone." ”
How many home appliances are "pseudo-smart"
In this way, smart home appliances, which represent avant-garde, high-end and advanced, seem to have a natural boundary with the elderly of their parents.
The reason why people of the parents' generation are not good at using smart home appliances. On the one hand, it is because of its physiological and thinking characteristics, which are contrary to the operating mechanism of smart home appliances.
As we all know, once people are old, not only do they have bad eyes, but their thinking is relatively slow; not only is their memory rapidly declining, but their learning ability is also much worse than before. The diversity of smart home appliances in function and the complexity of operation have led to high requirements for the user's personal ability.
The elderly of the parents' generation are already a little dizzy; after seeing the dazzling big screen of smart home appliances, they feel more dizzy; the big screen is still a touch screen, and they have to study how to operate, which is even more headache.
Another key point of the problem is that many smart home appliances have a complex function, and parents are actually not cold.
The simple living habits of the parents' generation have also led to many high-tech functions and high-class enjoyment in smart home appliances, which cannot be displayed in front of them. For many parents, these functions are not unusable, but they do not want to use; not that they do not use them well, but that they do not use them.
At the same time, the smart home appliances launched by many merchants are indeed full of slots and problems.
First of all, most of the smart home appliances need to be networked, and the networking process is more complicated, and the elderly often can't figure it out on their own.
Secondly, some smart home appliances are not smart enough in speech recognition. When others issue instructions, there are often communication barriers of "you say the front door building, I say the crotch shaft", and the northeast aunt war smart refrigerator that appeared above is the best example of this phenomenon.
Third, many smart home appliances will have touch screens, and the elderly are not skilled in this, and the places that want to be pointed do not move, and the places that do not want to be pointed are moved, which not only reduces the efficiency of use, but also makes it easy to raise people's blood pressure.
Fourth, some smart home appliances, the structure is too complex, the installation is too troublesome. To use such smart appliances, installers need not only Lu Ban's technology, but also Einstein's knowledge; not only the courage of singer Liang Jingru, but also the perseverance of Iron Man Wang Jinxi.
Finally, there are also many difficulties in the after-sales maintenance of some smart home appliances. Many smart home appliances have not established a perfect after-sales service network like traditional home appliances, and they can often be shelved after problems.
Many smart home appliance manufacturers do not understand the real needs of users and cannot find the real pain points of users; many smart home appliance manufacturers. Deliberately piling up new technologies, adding new features, and labeling products as "smart" is just to make more money.
Those home appliance manufacturers that pile up technology and concepts, their cost is actually not high, and the technology is not advanced.
Take those smart home appliances that can be remotely controlled through mobile phone APP, just add an IoT chip to it, and the seemingly tall function can be perfectly realized. And the Cost of the IoT chip itself, and the network connection, may be less than $10.
However, home appliances with related functions on the market, due to the function of remote control, under the banner of intelligence, the price is 30%-50% more expensive than ordinary home appliances.
For example, many smart home appliances on the market today have the function of speech recognition, and the cost price of speech recognition chips that can realize their functions is generally below 10 yuan. The price of those speech recognition chips with a single function will be lower, and some even as low as less than 3 yuan.
However, the price of these home appliances with voice recognition functions in the market is often higher than that of ordinary home appliances with the same configuration, which is more than 100 yuan or even more than 1,000 yuan.
Smart home appliances, it is not easy to say love you
In this way, the smart home appliance circle is actually full of "pseudo-intelligence".
In fact, the reason why some smart home appliances look mentally retarded is not all to blame electronic and electrical appliance manufacturers. The technical level of smart home appliances still has some problems.
Taking the IoT industry as an example, although emerging large factories such as Xiaomi, Yunmi, Shishi, and Coworth, as well as traditional home appliance companies such as Hisense, Haier, Gree, and Midea, are all laid out in them.
However, the construction of IoT Internet of Things requires not only software-side upgrades, but also iterations on hardware. It is necessary not only to change the form of the product, but also to change the production lifestyle. New requirements are put forward for designers, developers, producers and users.
At the same time, due to the Internet of Things industry, the requirements for indicators such as power consumption, coverage, and the number of connections are high, and the current infrastructure level of network facilities is not enough to support such a large data traffic. Therefore, the current IoT industry has almost fallen into a bottleneck in its development.
Due to the current problems in the IoT Internet of Things industry, the speed of launching smart home appliances by the international IoT factories has also decreased.
Today, everything is intelligent. And some young urban men and women, after experiencing the charm of smart home appliances, also began to their parents Amway, wanting their parents to enjoy the dividends of scientific and technological progress and taste the beauty of life.
However, they ignore the ability of parents to learn and master new things, and underestimate the difficulty of using smart home appliances in the eyes of parents.
In fact, for parents, some smart home appliances are indeed dispensable objects.
In this regard, the IQ Tax Research Center summed up the "smart home appliances that cannot be bought for parents", namely: sweeping robots, smart refrigerators, smart door locks, dishwashers, smart curtains, smart water purifiers, smart rice cookers, and smart air conditioners.