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by LocalPCGuy 2277 days ago
Let's say you use an app that allows you to add Todos. You've added 30 Todos. No internet needed, it's always just worked. You go on vacation for 10 days. You get back, you open your app. No Todos...all gone. Very simple use case that is now broken.

Yes, you as the user could wipe those out. But now Apple is doing it just because you didn't use it in 7 days. And the user will not blame Apple, they won't even know Apple did that. They will blame the app developer, who in the interest of privacy didn't want to push your personal Todos to a database online.

Again, just a contrived example, please don't go down the road of why a server should have been used. Let's stick to the use case described.