My guess, in ten years time. I suspect those that care about quality (an ever dwindling audience) will continue to hoard media and their own fileset. The rest of the world will realise that iTunes or Spotify or tidal is good enough and the stream (aka personal radio station) will become the norm. end points will all be IP based and actually I think individual phones will be the player source, via either Bluetooth or airplay or some as-yet-undefined media playback system. It's perfect: you sit in your car listening to cached streams on your phone, you get home and the same stream picks up again onto your house system, following you from room to room automatically. Almost all devices will have built-in endpoints anyway. There will be NO room for differentiation of products because it will all be tied to the interface dictated by your chosen streaming service.
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