I know very few people under 40 who fold and iron clothes, and I'm not sure I know people under 30 who own an ironing table and iron (or if they own one, it's busted, and if it's not busted, it's lost).
I think "doing the laundry" is getting obsolete faster than doing it yourself is. Kind of like people didn't give up on sewing their damages clothes by hiring a robot to do it... they gave up by throwing old clothes away and switching to fast fashion.
If this product addresses high-income people (which would probably be the case even if the price comes down from $100k to even $1k), then it still seems a lost cause for this reason.
Fast fashion clothing increasingly cannot be ironed. But also it’s increasingly hard to buy good quality clothes because of the influence of fast fashion. Even very expensive designers will have shit like unlined coats or thin sweaters. Part of this is that the supply chain for good quality clothing has been greatly reduced. Even if you wanted as a designer to acquire good quality fabric, you have to pay more for it than you used to.
I think "doing the laundry" is getting obsolete faster than doing it yourself is. Kind of like people didn't give up on sewing their damages clothes by hiring a robot to do it... they gave up by throwing old clothes away and switching to fast fashion.
If this product addresses high-income people (which would probably be the case even if the price comes down from $100k to even $1k), then it still seems a lost cause for this reason.