If you were buying a car and the salesperson proclaimed to you that the future of automotives rests with the car they happen to be selling, you'd take that with a grain of salt, wouldn't you? Well, if there's one thing the internet is not short of it is proclamations about the future of the music industry. Many of the most forceful ones are made by people with a vested financial interest in seeing the future turn out just the way they're saying.
Back to the notion of being a smart consumer online: consider where you're getting your information. If you read a blog that argues passionately that music platform X is the wave of the future, that happens to have been penned by the owner of music platform X, you have a little more research to do before you make up your own mind.
