Help! Why Is The App store in Ipad Different from Desktop App Store??

[VideoNewbie]

when i try to access the app store from my ipad...and say i click on categories>books. it will only let me separate the apps by release date, most popular and featured.

why is it that on the desktop app store version not only will it let me separate by the 3 categories above, but it will also give me "Whats hot" in books

as well as a "top charts" specifically for books in the app store. this feature is not present in the ipad version of the app store..

 

[Dangerous Theory]

Do you honestly expect someone here to have the answer? Why not contact Apple software designers?

 

[darngooddesign]

when i try to access the app store from my ipad...and say i click on categories>books. it will only let me separate the apps by release date, most popular and featured.

why is it that on the desktop app store version not only will it let me separate by the 3 categories above, but it will also give me "Whats hot" in books

as well as a "top charts" specifically for books in the app store. this feature is not present in the ipad version of the app store..

Because Apple knows and we do not.

A agree that its bad, but only Apple knows why.

 

[paulrbeers]

**Reaches into his bag o' random responses**

1. The moon was in the 3rd quadrant
2. Programmers assigned to the Mac App Store were different then the programmers assigned to the iPad App Store
3. Steve Wanted it that way
4. OS limitations
5. I don't care....

Please see 5.

 

[boy-better-know]

At least the iPad forum hasn't gone as bad as the iPhone forum for silly questions..... Yet.

 

[Vindicator]

when i try to access the app store from my ipad...and say i click on categories>books. it will only let me separate the apps by release date, most popular and featured.

why is it that on the desktop app store version not only will it let me separate by the 3 categories above, but it will also give me "Whats hot" in books

as well as a "top charts" specifically for books in the app store. this feature is not present in the ipad version of the app store..

for Top Charts, Top Grossing, go to "Top Chart" tab in AppStore app and tap "Categories" on the top left corner for specific category.

 

[vitzr]

At times, the odd decisions made at Apple make no sense.

 

[szolr]

3. Steve Wanted it that way

^ The determining factor.

 

[porcupine8]

This gets discussed once every few weeks - consensus is that the app store is the most poorly-designed app on the iPad, and no clue how it slipped past Apple's design gurus.

At least they're slowly improving it. You can view games by genre now, some of the other categories' home pages are getting spruced up, now they've put swiping in (though only in some of the places where it should be). At this rate, by the time it hits a million iPad apps available it might have evolved into something useful.

 

[IllIllIll]

The correct answer is: just to annoy YOU. Not anyone - you specifically so you'd come on MacRumors forums and complain.