While the HomePod is new and the actual speaker appears to be of a much higher fidelity than its rivals, it's not a game-changer.
"Apple is in a position that they haven't often been in over the past 15 years," Glenn Hower, a digital media analyst at Parks Associates, said in an interview from Dallas. "Right now, they're really playing catch-up, trying to make a big splash with home innovations. In some ways, they're responding rather than innovating."
From the article "Why Steve Jobs' Grand Vision for a Breakthrough Apple Product Remains Unfulfilled" by Leon Lazaroff.
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