[jeromeparadis]

I entirely agree. Apple forgot an important use case? I hate it when software is built to think in place of the user. There are two culprits here:

* the lack of persistent, non backable offline storage * the addition of a auto-cleaning procedure

The auto-cleanup without a storage alternative is a blunder. iOS 5 decides for the user what should be deleted to free up space. An alternative would be to prompt what application data you would like to remove instead of a blind decision. Otherwise, that's the kind of programming that will one day lead robots to cleanup the human race! ;)

Of course, having permanent local storage that's not backed up would be a more user-friendly solution. However, it would probably lead people to run out of space when developers begin abusing it like some did with temp or cache storage.

It seems like a trend at Apple these days. With Lion, the OS now decides when an application should quit when unused.