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and offered three tiers 1 that's free and advertisement based, 2 that's Lossy based, and 3 Lossless/MQA based, then it would target the three big diverse markets.
I think if Apple bought Tidal and kept their MQA initiative, it might help get BMG and Sony to join Warner and release MQA based content because it appears to be the perfect solution for streaming Hi Res content due to small file sizes.
Do I think people are going to have a problem integrating with these 3rd party players? NO. I don't think Roon users or users of other music players will have anything to worry about since most of these 3rd party players are integrating with Apple Music, so I don't think those people have anything to worry about. Apple knows that ITunes app doesn't do everything that other 3rd party players do, so until they add all of the same functionality, they'll still play with others.
I just hope they don't drag a bunch of people like JayZ into becoming Apple employees like they got suckered into hiring Iovine and Dre, those two are useless and actually just a waste of money.
The problem with these streaming services and even digital downloads is they simply aren't a high profit business and since Apple doesn't rely on revenue/profits from their streaming services/digital downloads, they can absorb any losses much easier and longer than Spotify, Tidal, etc. can do on their own.
Does anyone know how much of Warner's catalog is actually available in MQA? It would be great if there was a way to tell just to see how fast MQA content is coming along.