David@FrankHarvey said:If Apple Music had been successful, I doubt they'd be in talks for TIDAL. To me, that points to it not performing as Apple had expected, so the solution to that is buy out the competition and gain subscribers.
I'm just glad my music collection (CD and vinyl) is growing, so I can listen to anything I want to listen to at any time, and it'll be the best quality available.
David@FrankHarvey said:Potential = Profit
Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that Apple are looking into this potential for anyone but themselves...
drummerman said:This tells me two (three) things;
The uncertainties of cloud based music services ... Tidal will now never support google's chromecast audio ... and the importance of hard copy music, or at least the importance of actually owning it in the long term, however one wants to accomplish that.
knaithrover said:Worrying as i'm a big fan of Tidal - if it happens I hope they don't fcuk with the formula too much. Agree with what's been said on previous posts and I too still buy vinyl, cd's and download just in case the cloud ever blows away......
daveh75 said:Apple decided long ago that AAC @ 256k is all you'll ever need, and don't care about ALAC in the slightest hence them open sourcing it years ago.
Anyone hoping Apple won't mess with Tidal if they buy it, is frankly either deluded or hasn't been paying attention.
Tidal will be assimilated into Apple Music and simply cease to be.