I have updated my iPad 2 with iOS 5 and lost all my apps.

Question

When updating my iPad 2 evey single app was lost. I am wondering if there is anyway to recover them, and all the info that was held in them. My photos were kept, but that was all (no music was available to be lost).
I have tried syncing to iTunes, but apparently the backup was never done/completed, or it just didn't work.  This angers me greatly, and it is something that Apple HAS to fix. I have seen that this has been happening to many other people with their iPads as well, and when I talked to support about it, I was blown off.
Time to step it up Apple. If you want to keep going without Jobs, you HAVE to live up to your own reputation.

Answer 1

It sounds as if you were using iTunes for sync/backup, not iCloud. Presumably you had noticed the device being backed up in the past? When was your most recent backup from? In my case, the iOS upgrade process triggered its own backup, so when the new OS was installed, my iPad looked exactly as it did prior to the upgrade.
I'm not sure the problem is Apple's to fix, as you put it: it may simply be terrible luck that your backup file happened to be corrupted. :^< It's never any fun to be the outlier, I know that for sure.