I needed a light machine to do some web design work on figma. My first instinct was to get a Chromebook but my designer found an iPad air with m1 for cheaper. I checked and figma was available for iPad so I authorized.
A couple days later we get the iPad and it does have the figma app but it is view only!
You can still use figma but it has to be the web version. It works but because apple has terrible PWA support the experience is much inferior than in a much weaker Chromebook.
The Apps for iPad are just weak on general. Often the only available app is the one for iphone, and you can still install but it renders in a third of the screen as a phone App with big black bars on the sides.
Honestly this comes back to the refrain I've been hearing lately: what iPadOS needs is the desktop version of Safari! That would let us run Figma just fine! Figjam runs great on iPad, it's actually a fully native experience and I love it. But if they'd just give us a first-class Safari experience, we'd be good here.
A couple days later we get the iPad and it does have the figma app but it is view only! You can still use figma but it has to be the web version. It works but because apple has terrible PWA support the experience is much inferior than in a much weaker Chromebook.
The Apps for iPad are just weak on general. Often the only available app is the one for iphone, and you can still install but it renders in a third of the screen as a phone App with big black bars on the sides.
We returned it the same day.