The Strong, the Weak and the Unowned

It’s the Fall of 2011, Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” is blasting from little white headphones everywhere. It was a simpler time, except in the area of iOS memory management. Something was about to change. With iOS5 came the wonder of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC). App memory management became a lot easier. However, there are still a few scenarios which, if left unchecked, could have you “Rolling in the S***”.