Re: When Will Note 3 Verizon Phones get 4.4
... updated to 4.4 from 4.3 and they had a lot of issues with paid apps not being compatible.... I am not that familiar with paid apps but now have a couple. Do we have to purchase the apps again?
We hear this over and over in one form or another from one upgrade to another. This is not the case at all. It is very possible that some app maker will offer you a paid version of the app and there is some slight odd reason that one app won't carry over from one upgrade to the next and that app dev doesn't fix it. But, this is a very very very very small percentage of the apps out there.
The reality of this, if you buy an app, with all likelihood they are trying to still sell those same apps. They will update them to work forward and backward compatible. If you spent .99 cents on an app or even 15 bucks on an app you own it for life. A subscription based app is different though, but all subscriptions in everything are a time period.
The bottom line is, you will not buy the same app again, ever. Some companies will release a new app of the same thing and make you buy that to move forward, but that's their lousy choice. Almost everything is upgraded to the latest android version before your phone will be.