Cleaning… ⇥

Marco Arment:

There’s no longer anywhere to store files [on devices with iOS 5] that don’t need to be backed up (or can’t be, by the new policy) but shouldn’t be randomly deleted.

This is something I also noticed when I was reading through the iCloud developer guidelines. There needs to be a way to cache data locally, for an indeterminate amount of time, and which doesn’t need to be synced. That used to be the (App Name)/Caches/ folder, because it wasn’t synced to iCloud and wasn’t “cleaned up”.

Update: Hacker News user euroclydon makes a very good observation:

Seem like the Dropbox app will have this quandary but on an even larger scale.