Apple's iTunes powered speaker with spacial awareness, Apple's A8 chip, portability, the ability to pull music from the Apple Music cloud, and has Siri as its interface. And also will be useful as a home assistant, yup welcome Apple to the already saturated home assistant game.
IPad Pro 10.5 size of my 9.7 lighter ...hmmm lol
HomePod will be more geared for music but I will wait on reviews and it’s interaction with other music apps ...