Mac App Store purchase on iPad or iPhone

So I bought Wikibot using the App Store on my powerbook.  It's a relatively cheap app, $3, but I was still surprised to see that I had to pay for it again on my iPad and iPhone.  I understand that software for a full-size Mac has to be rewritten to work on an iPad or iPhone, but from the end user's perspective.. it's the same?
Seems to me that the right thing to do would be to credit the purchase across all Mac devices.
--Greg Chavez

A Mac (OS X) and an iPad (iOS) use different operating systems and they are not compatible - so the titles of the software might be the same but they are two completely different programs.

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