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People who don't know how crippled iOS is in terms of app backup and
restore don't know the most important differences between the platforms.
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An astoundingly huge (& rather crippling) difference between iOS & Android
that Steve's document completely ignores (last I had checked anyway)...
Is that Android _always_ saves the installer for the installed apps.
*Always*
For all apps. Not just user-installed apps - but for every app.
*Even default & system apps*
Unfortunately, by way of utter crippling comparison, iOS does not.
*And iOS just gets worse from there*
For Android, no backup of your APK is needed since it's already there.
*You can always _extract_ the original APK at any time*
But for iOS, you're doomed if you don't create your own backup.
*Even then, that version may not exist on the Apple App Store.*
If Steve's document doesn't cover this, which is arguably one of the most fundamentally important differences between Android & iOS, then it's crap.
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