I imagine it might have to do with the actual surface of the 'keyboard' being embossed. It's very hard to use a tablet based UI to accomplish tasks like this be

I imagine it might have to do with the actual surface of the 'keyboard' being embossed. It's very hard to use a tablet based UI to accomplish tasks like this because of the lack of physical controls. Oftentimes the operators attention is focused elsewhere and having to look down at a virtual set of controls is detrimental. I imagine not even this will help that much. Sometimes nothing beats an actual physical control panel.