A few months ago I was looking for a Spotify alternative and tried out Deezer, Tidal, and Qobuz. Deezer would have no idea what song I was just listening to on my computer if I switched to my phone. That was a deal breaker. Tidal was pretty good, but lacked collaborative playlists. I landed on Qobuz and am pretty happy with it. The one slightly annoying thing is I’ve seen a few cases of bands having albums mapped to them that aren’t actually them, but some other band/artist with the same name. Not a deal breaker for me, just slightly annoying and something that will hopefully get cleaned up over time.

You can put one of the other reasons, such as: a) they pay some podcasters a LOT of money and have one of the worst payouts to artists out of the streaming services b) they donated to the inauguration of a cheeto, c) they are just getting lossless audio, but at a lower quality than some other services

Give Qobuz a try. I did the free trials on a few services and found it to be the most feature complete

It will happen eventually. We may be accelerating how quickly that is coming

Retailers won’t eat it all, consumers will

The guy owned casinos that went bankrupt. It takes a special kind of person to do that

Most definitely

To be fair, COVID-19 was also a factor in 2020

Compare it to some stats for some truly useless Internet services if you really want to make a point

Has he ever been clear about anything?