Goodbye Jay Z? Hello Apple?

codaaudiovideo said:
Very Interesting. He will be one wealthy man if Apple buys him out. They must consider Tidal a threat.
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Not a threat, they want the artists and exclusives, it would give them the complete advantage over spotify. Expect them to kill tidal completly and continue on their closed, crappy quality streaming ways.
 
I hold a different view. If there is a market for high quality streaming and audiophiles are willing to pay twice as much, I think that Apple will gladly take our money. The infrastructure is already in place to stream Redbook quality CD's. If there is demand from the $20 per month customer vs. the $10 per month of the mass market customer, I think they will keep it in place.

I suppose one argument against this view is how many of us are there? Tidal is already embedded into Lumin, Aurender and other music servers. But I have no idea how many of the 5 million paid subscribers of Tidal are paying for high quality streaming.
 
Odyssey said:
I hold a different view. If there is a market for high quality streaming and audiophiles are willing to pay twice as much, I think that Apple will gladly take our money. The infrastructure is already in place to stream Redbook quality CD's. If there is demand from the $20 per month customer vs. the $10 per month of the mass market customer, I think they will keep it in place.

I suppose one argument against this view is how many of us are there? Tidal is already embedded into Lumin, Aurender and other music servers. But I have no idea how many of the 5 million paid subscribers of Tidal are paying for high quality streaming.
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45% of Tidal's customers are paying for the Premium Service. It's a bargain.
 
Recently, I read that Apple may be thinking of getting into the hi-rez market. If that proves true, then Tidal would be the perfect vehicle to build into a niche. Of course such rumors have been rampant for years so take it with a big grain of salt.
 
Don't forget that TIDAL is MQA ready & compatible, but license belongs to Meridian, and if Apple take Tidal nobody knows what will be with this technology.
 
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