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I kind of dislike the fact that proven platform-supplied facilities like Core Data and the wonderful NSPredicate-Stuff isn't used ( from what I've read on the parse.com homepage ). Building an whole app around a proprietary framework, thereby abandoning the standard stuff wouldn't have been an option for too many projects I've done..

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It's good practice to keep your network data model somewhat isolated anyway. For my projects, I'm creating a Core Data model to match the Parse object data model, and running everything off that, using the Parse objects to keep the CD up to date. That way, I have device-local copies of all app data, and if I need to change backends in the future I only need to replace the isolated Parse code.

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