[Discuss] iPhone vs. Android - the backup problem

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

On 7/20/2012 9:41 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
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>> Google does the same thing. (Mostly.)
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>> I recently got a new phone and *most* of my Google Play apps reappeared,
>> but not all.
>
> The ones you pay for will reappear.  But the free ones don't.  It seems like an easy fix - I wish they would do it.  Because I jump from phone to phone somewhat regularly, and tablets etc.  It's not always easy to remember how to find some free app that you really liked.

The new Google Play store on the web does appear to have a full record 
of all the apps you have bought including free ones. The phone version 
only shows the apps you bought on that phone.