pablolie wrote: > but i believe when companies don't open-mindedly acknowledge disruption, > they get obsolete and replaced by new companies that do.
Indeed. A week ago I had the pleasure to attend an event where David Byrne and independent music publisher Michel Lambot discussed the future of the music business. They both predicted that the CD (and DVD) would be dead in 5 years, with vinyl hanging on as a "fetish object" (Byrne's words). Lambot showed some interesting figures - total music sales revenue in countries such as Sweden is actually up, mainly due to streaming services. He also showed how the revenue (to artist and record label) for a single spotify stream is very small, but still 10 times as much as on youtube and 100 times as much as for a BBC Radio 1 listener. Byrne also told how her daughter mostly listens to music through the speaker on her smart phone. First he thought the quality was awful, but then realized it was much better than the transistor radio he had when growing up. So yes, disruption is happening, and you either go with it or become roadkill. But the old guard will fight it every step of the way... "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102330 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
