disagreed!
i bet they won't...if they do i'll eat my boot and yawl can laugh at me
last time it wasn't like this. what we have here is a fully functional OS.
what we had last time was simply a plugin - you couldn't make beats on that thing. it was more of a dj tool.
JJ has created a new os - one meant to directly replace the akai version. it trumps it, so to say. i bet that JJ implements the old dj trick os into the mpc1000 os 3.0 as a plugin and will continue to make addons that do special things in the future, and charge accordingly.
akai is not gonna undercut the 2500 like that - UNLESS they're about to drop something nonsensical for the 2500. we're talking like new features coming out of the machine's buggy little ass - a 2500 equivalent to the mpc1000's os 2.0.
JJ's best tactic will be to make os 3.0 a Port os - one that lets 3rd party plugins get installed. keeping the plugins a separate part of the os will be good because individual plugins won't mess up the os in general. call me a zealot, but i trust in JJ implicitly.
i wish he posted on these boards, or i wish i knew japanese.