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Core Data, as someone said earlier, has a much steeper learning curve than straight SQLite, but it pays off in the long run, saving you from writing enormous amounts of repeating, mindless code. I dread having to maintain my older non-Core Data-using apps, and am in the process of migrating them where I can.

I'm in the process of writing the same repetitive database code for an Android app at the moment and would love a (high quality, I've tried a few bad 3rd party libraries) Core Data equivalent to use.