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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by dudus on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:07AM (#43350749)
I needed a machine just to sketch some UIs in figma. I was going to get a Chromebook but my wife insisted on the iPad.

I thought it could sure handle that use case, I quickly checked there was a figma app. I was expecting some quirks.

A day later I returned it. Turns out that figma app for iPad can only "view" designs, not create them!

I feel like there's a very narrow market for iPads. I'm surprised they still sell.

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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by keyle on Thursday March 13, 2025 @03:16AM (#43350978)
They sell like hot breads for kids in school.
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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by DidYaWipe on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:11AM (#43351192)
Who immediately

1. Turn them into toys 2. Break them 3. Lose them

Gargantuan waste of money that does nothing to advance education.

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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by BobaFloutist on Thursday March 13, 2025 @10:52AM (#43353982)
I mean tablets genuinely have advantages for note-taking, I'm tempted to get one myself

Recording math notes or diagrams with a keyboard just sucks, and a phone is too small.

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Re:Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built fo... by akst on Thursday March 13, 2025 @06:03AM (#43351761)
Yeah I don't think I've found a good substitute for vector art.

There's stuff for more expressive creative raster art with procreate, I think the capacity is there to deliver a good experience here but the first one to do it will have to solve a few problems relating into a more professional workflow and take on quite a bit of risk seeing as the consumer base (most companies) probably don't issue iPads to their employees. There's very little incentive to this when their consumer is content with existing tools.

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