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Editorial Today tab fronting an algorithmic ranking nobody can read.

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Apple's App Store split itself into an editorial front and a utilitarian back. The Today tab is magazine-style: full-bleed cards, hand-written stories, app-of-the-day features that treat software like covered culture. Behind it, the product page is tightly templated — screenshot carousel, ratings summary, what's-new notes, and an in-context privacy "nutrition label" that's one of the better trust disclosures in any store. Search is where it gets uncomfortable: ranking is opaque, and the top result is frequently a paid ad styled almost identically to an organic listing. The single Get button is admirably decisive. Discovery is editorially rich but algorithmically inscrutable; you trust the curation precisely because you can't trust the ranking.