It's not strange at all, Ableton sucks. Anyway the different MPCs are laid out slightly differently but so were Roger's. He will completely destroy the competition if he teams back up with Akai. This especially includes Ableton. Which sucks.
This is unfair to Adobe, if you can't take two minutes to learn the excruciatingly minute differences between Photoshop and GIMP, you deserve to pay the idiot fee.
With all the components for everything being made in China already, it's inevitable that they will just realize they can, themselves, assemble everything there with their own concerns. It's just the natural progression of moving the industry offshore. Western companies can still own the brand names and take a couple percent profit off them, the Kodak model.
He pointed out that all the buttons and important controls are right where and how he designed them to be on his MPCs. He said they got the workflow and timing down perfectly. Did you watch the review?
I know the ones in the top pic. They're pretty rubbery and tasteless and harmless but you can boil them, then squeeze them, and boil them in sugar and make candies out of them.
Didn't anybody ever watch Apple's Knowledge Navigator movie? Well now we're basically here. It's neat but the issue we have now is AI literally recommends killing yourself and making pizza with glue.