I'm just talking about how the market will develop.
People have been choosing convenience and "good enough" for the past couple of decades over pure quality.
Especially having to get specialized players and software to rip lossless or using those 24-bit audio formats.
The market at large simply won't bother.
What percent do you think go through the trouble of dealing with lossless? 5%? Even that may be generous.
Now maybe if solid state storage becomes dirt cheap, people will re-encode their music to fill devices with 10 or 20 times the storage.
Or maybe not, a lot of them no longer have optical drives in their computers.