You Should Use Core Data
Just to be clear: if your requirements never change and you never update your applications, you never interact with remote objects, your users never make mistakes, your data operations are all instantaneous, your users all run 12-core Mac Pros, and you only have one view, Core Data is definitely not the correct tool for you. Go, write your own data stack, and be merry. The rest of us should be using Core Data.
Also to be clear, using Core Data here and there does not magically solve all your thread synchronization problems, or build a complete sync engine for you. It’s not some magical dust you sprinkle on and life is sunshine and rainbows.
He also has an interesting post about using NSIncrementalStore with Web services.
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