“I’ve completely written Tidal off. Their opening, their handling of the service, their general perceived attitude? It’s a non-starter for me.

You hit the nail on the head. The service appears to be run by a whining group of 1%ers. It doesn’t make me feel good to subscribe to a service that has so little of what I’m interested in hearing while lining the pockets of already super rich people.” — You

It’s hard for me to take anything bu disdain away from those words. 99% of their perceived “1%” whining is based on that press conference. So in other words, you never actually watched the event that led to the negative backlash in the first place? Wow. Because all of its marketing has been about the artists from day 1 and the complaint was that only affluent artists were on the stage. And yes, everyone is entitled to an opinion but not all opinions are created equally…the OP’s opinion has more meat to it thank yours for example and that is why I responded to him separately. You missed my greater point anyhow. Jay and co. will be fine regardless of what any of us do.