yeah I am familiar with ownership from Obj-C reference counting. But the problem is when your own code interacts with the framework that uses its own internal

yeah I am familiar with ownership from Obj-C reference counting. But the problem is when your own code interacts with the framework that uses its own internal way of managing memory (ironically it's a copy of Obj-C reference counting) Right now I've decided just to go with the frameworks way of doing things and inherit from their base object. The problem comes when I want to use this code outside in a different project :-/