Not bothering with the tech specs is nothing new, game console market's been like that for years. People (normal people, not geeks salivating over specs) don't

Not bothering with the tech specs is nothing new, game console market's been like that for years. People (normal people, not geeks salivating over specs) don't care how fast the CPU in their console is - they only care which games can be played with it. They can still compare the quality of the consoles (newer, bigger, nicer, games will run on newer consoles, but not on older - or, one can complain about lack of DVD playback on Wii, without going into tech details). (Feature) phone market used to be like this, too, at least from what I remember in the past 13-14 years in europe. Only with the rise of the smartphone (when people started looking at the more like computers) and phone cameras (the unavoidable megapixel comparisons) did tech specs started get into everyday conversation about phones.