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

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

 

Because Apple knows and we do not.

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

 

**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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

^ The determining factor.

 

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.

 

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