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CoreData is really meant for storing the entries that back your table view. Trying to use it as a universal data model seems unintended.

• gress 12y ago
  You might be right that it's best for that, but CoreData pre-dates table views by many years and has always been sold by Apple as a general store for object graphs.
  • mikeash 12y ago
    Pre-dates table views? NSTableView dates to the 1990s. Core Data was introduced in 2005.
    • dozenal 12y ago
      Core Data was based on the Enterprise Object Framework from NeXT.
      • mikeash 12y ago
        Only loosely. And I don't believe EOF predates table views either.
        • dozenal 12y ago
          Okay, but I"m still not buying that Core Data had no design goals beyond backing store for table views.
          • mikeash 12y ago
            Oh yes, I certainly wouldn't try to argue with that. In classic Apple fashion, they seem to try to sell it as the solution for all things data storage.