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Streaming Music in the cloud is not going anywhere.

Not sure why that would change that?

There have never been as much access to music as there is today. It's a good thing.

Price conflicts. The streaming system is obviously worthwhile, but we haven't negotiated a price point where users, streamers, and artists are all willing to play ball.

At the moment, it seems like someone always has to take a loss, and the rationalization might be ugly.

http://www.businessinsider.com/spotifys-growth-has-gotten-fa...

Outside of Apple I'm of the opinion Spotify will be the only one that survives as competition. Tidal? Much more likely.

Besides, Spotify is playing ball with the record labels. As numerous articles are indicating though, the RIAA is out for blood on YouTube. That's going to be much more contentious in the future I'd wager.

And we will call this the golden decade of music access, as our children fetishize the 2010s

Yep it's only going to get tighter and tighter (legitimately so, IMHO).

Just like we fetishize the Napster era.