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Title: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: Hilton on July 05, 2016, 05:20:53 am

Apple to buy Tidal? Hmmm could be.. Jay-Z wallet might be getting a bit light.... and Apple might use tidal as it's premium Hi-Res Streaming service....

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/why-tidal-is-the-perfect-acquisition-target-for-apple/

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: Hendrik on July 05, 2016, 05:56:40 am

Even less chances of Tidal being open to better integration into third-party players then, eh.

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: JimH on July 05, 2016, 06:40:57 am

It's a rumor.

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: jachin99 on July 07, 2016, 10:24:57 pm

I guess this would fit with Apple's "Premium" market strategy. 

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: bhampster on July 10, 2016, 08:01:30 am

I think Apple wants to keep CD quality off peoples devices.

But then, I still don't know what a Jay Z is and I have all my CDs ripped losslessly so I don't use any of those services.

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: RoderickGI on July 10, 2016, 05:45:05 pm

Almost pure speculation, with the site providing a link back to itself as evidence initially, then to a dubious Wall Street Journal speculative article.

This is what "news" has become in our world, "He said she said, they might one day... scratch their butt."

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: JimH on July 10, 2016, 06:29:44 pm

News is getting stranger and stranger.  "Sponsored by" links that look like news articles.  Editorial presented as news.  Articles that are full of typos.  Hello, editor?

It is a noisy world and getting noisier by the minute.

I miss the day when the news came in the morning paper, dropped on the doorstep.  It had a cohesive voice.  It was our news, not the news of blathering idiots.

Sometimes, I miss dropping that paper there at 5:45AM on a snowy, blowing January day.  Not often.  Just once in a while.

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: blgentry on July 10, 2016, 07:47:42 pm

Don't forget that comedy shows are now "news" too.  The Daily Show, et al.  Comedy.  But many people consider them a legitimate source of news.  Which is troubling because it's comedy.  It's parody.  But people use it as news, which means that they believe some part(s) of the parody as reality.

Brian.

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: DarkPenguin on July 10, 2016, 09:08:07 pm

Quote from: JimH on July 10, 2016, 06:29:44 pm

News is getting stranger and stranger.  "Sponsored by" links that look like news articles.  Editorial presented as news.  Articles that are full of typos.  Hello, editor?

It is a noisy world and getting noisier by the minute.

I miss the day when the news came in the morning paper, dropped on the doorstep.  It had a cohesive voice.  It was our news, not the news of blathering idiots.

Sometimes, I miss dropping that paper there at 5:45AM on a snowy, blowing January day.  Not often.  Just once in a while.

I get almost all my news from Twitter.

Title: Re: Apple to buy Tidal?
Post by: DJLegba on July 10, 2016, 09:28:13 pm

Quote from: JimH on July 10, 2016, 06:29:44 pm

I miss the day when the news came in the morning paper, dropped on the doorstep.  It had a cohesive voice.  It was our news, not the news of blathering idiots.

Subscribe again. I still get two morning papers.