You apparently don't know how things work here. As soon as Apple steps into ANY pond, all of the long-established players in that pond suddenly collapse into crap. Every possible thing that can be spun up as wrong with them (and then some... and then some stuff we might even make up or outright lie about and try to sneak through) will become VERY IMPORTANT features/issues unless Apple's cut at something is lacking there too.
There was a time that we completely LOVED Google Maps, until Apple Maps came along and then the former suddenly had flaws. We used to collectively LOVE Spotify and similar. Then Apple rolls out AM and Spotify suddenly became crap. Even when we have to really stretch to make such stuff appear to be crap, we'll go as far as spinning up profitability & viability as if that should be in the way of consumer enjoyment today. Just anything & everything we can say to try to help Apple sell their entrant against established players is what must be said.
And things that are hard to argue- such as the relative "smarts" in this case will be marginalized away as barely important at best and/or we'll start pounding away that they are no smarter and/or in fact dumber than Apple's cut. We'll also hide behind the ultimate crutch: "just one software update away" even if we know that sometimes the particular things imagined to be on the other side of such updates never actually arrive. In other words, we're happy to imply the hypothetical "what it could become" while holding all competitors to "what they are" (or "were" in some cases).
Specs won't matter unless some Apple spec is superior and then that particular spec
will matter. However, let Samsung roll out a HousePod clone with an extra tweeter and/or a bigger sub and then the tweeter count and sub size will no longer matter in future discussions. In fact, we'll probably just flip that to Apple superiority based on "thinner" or "smaller." And note: the Samsung tweeters will be inferior even if they are sourced from the very same place and are in fact the very same tweeters. If that becomes too obvious such that it's hard to argue something different, we'll just promptly stop talking about tweeters altogether other than griping about Samsung's copycat ways.
It's like a rule. Apple could roll out Salsa or TP or Air and all Salsas would suddenly taste rancid, all TP would completely lose it's effectiveness and a number of people here would smother if they ran out of Apple air vs. daring to resume breathing normal air. We are collectively AMAZING that way.
Step back a few weeks and let this HP be a Samsung new product rollout and the collective take- even if it was exactly the same product- would be dramatically different. It's weaknesses would headline most ever post. It's strengths would be beat down as not so strong. What a difference a (brand) name can make.
