Somewhat of a conspiracy theory - but if the choice for developers is risk losing losing local data or back data up to the cloud unnecessarily, I think they'll choose to store it to the cloud, as they will be the ones blamed when their app "deletes data randomly".
The more storage space taken up by local files being backed up to iCloud, the more people will end up going over their 5GB capacity, and will have to upgrade to the higher capacity plans to cover it. I'm not sure I actually believe this right now, but if they refuse to fix the problem, then I might...
The more storage space taken up by local files being backed up to iCloud, the more people will end up going over their 5GB capacity, and will have to upgrade to the higher capacity plans to cover it. I'm not sure I actually believe this right now, but if they refuse to fix the problem, then I might...