When people think of a product or service being "standard", several adjectives may come to mind. The product or service must be: uniform, consistent, unchanging, and going to remain the same for a very long time, if not indefinitely. The technical definition states, "An acknowledged measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value." People have grown to expect things in their daily life to be standard. Amazingly enough, people are accommodated more than they think.
There are so many products people take for granted, they rarely think of how much effort had to go into making them all fit into the same, nice little package. No one has to call their neighbors or friends down the block to make sure their stereo will play when they plug it into their outlet? Or when you make a trip to the office supply store to buy a new printer, you are not faced with multiple decisions on what paper size to choose. Everyone knows that paper that is 8.5 inches by 11 inches will fit......
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