Just an appreciation post about how good HomePods pick up the wake word

I have an Echo, Nest Hub and a HomePod in the same room and sometimes I try to ask them things under noisy conditions just to see which one works best. Other times it's not even a test, I just need it to do stuff while a loud movie is playing on my TV.

Anyway, I have 2 nests and both absolutely suck at picking up their wake word when you aren't close to them or there is any other sound in the room. Like even a fan that's a couple of feet away is enough that I need to repeat myself 3 to 5 times for it to pick up my voice. And if the TV is playing something I don't even try anymore, because it's to frustrating.

Echos or Alexa are not bad at all. They generally pick up the wake word reliably, but sometimes they still don't understand what I am saying. Other times they trigger by mistake because they picked something up from a conversation that sounded somewhat like Alexa.

However with HomePods my experience was always near perfect. They don't trigger unintentionally, or at least if they do they hide it pretty well because they shut off on their own when they realize you weren't talking to them. And they don't care if I'm watching Tv, despite them being literally next to the TV (no I don't use them as TV speakers). They pick up my voice exceptionally well. Sometimes Siri doesnt really know what she's supposed to do with that, but that's a different topic.

The mic hardware or I guess the noise isolation software part is far better on HomePod than on any product of the competition in my experience.