I’ve had the folio keyboard for my iPad, and have had to replace it because the soft-touch coating on the non-key sections of this thing just starts to disintegrate after a year. Twice. So I think maybe part of not offering it is that they couldn’t figure out how to make it durable enough to survive being used.

That said, I still have and use my folio case because it’s an excellent keyboard for the iPad, and it turns the iPad more from a pure consumption device to something I can write a bit on. It’s surprising to me how much of a difference it makes. It’s not like I couldn’t grab my MacBook, or use a soft keyboard, but those hurdles are enough for me to often just stay in “consumption” mode.

I’m very surprised that Ableton hasn’t made a version of Live for the iPad - at this point, you can’t say it’s a power issue, and a touch-sensitive version of Live would essentially be Live + Push in one device, and would immediately be the most portable, most powerful music app around, and a critical part of any traveling musician’s toolbox. Even if they kept the pricing exactly the same as it currently is, but for iPad. People would happily pay $500 for it. Ableton Note is a nice compromise, but Live on the iPad would be totally killer, and I haven’t seen any real obstacles to doing it. Maybe there are some behind the scenes, I dunno.