Why download Apps to iMac?

Just spent ages downloading iPad apps onto my iMac in iTunes, but I cant open any of them on the iMac?  What is the point of having apps in iTunes on the iMac if you can't use them?
Thanks in advance.

You store them on the iMac in case you have to erase your iPad and you have to reinstall all the apps again. If you don't have them on the iMac, you will have to download them again, and it will take a lot. That's why the apps are stored on the iMac, not to run them on a computer

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