ARC is off in the template, thus autorelease is valid. My reasons why ARC is off are in the blog post - namely no one has upgraded plugins to ARC yet and we will break everything. We can change this if course (Andrew filed an issue) - I'll file an issue with plugman and the spec.
On Thursday, January 10, 2013, Jacob Weber wrote: > When I create a new iOS project with Cordova 2.3, Automatic Reference > Counting (CLANG_ENABLE_OBJC_ARC) is turned off. And the code (e.g. > AppDelegate.m) uses autorelease, which I'm pretty sure is incompatible with > ARC. > > Is this correct? Based on this blog post, I thought it should be on: > > http://shazronatadobe.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/automatic-reference-counting-arc-and-cordova-plugins/ > > Jacob
