Absolutely appalling, but not untypical of the arrogant behaviour of what I call the Church of Jobs.
They obviously had a Politburo session at which they determined that an Approved Church Member will not detect a difference if some app data is deleted, which I am sure is correct.
The problem is that there are some people out there who quite like the Ipad hardware (a nice screen, a good battery life, basically) and are desperately trying to use it for something slightly serious.
IOS5 is a load of crap. Iplayer crashes regularly...
Having to keep a "few gigs" free to avoid the risk of apps getting quietly deleted, is outrageous, especially on the 8GB model.
I will probably stick to using ours for in-house media playing and get a top end Android tablet someday. A good one of those costs as much as an Ipad but at least it isn't so crippled on interfacing.
How does one downgrade to the previous IOS?