MVC examples in this article do not represent MVC in Cocoa. E.g. last time I checked cocoa tables were bound to array controllers, which controlled filtering, available actions etc. Not to bare models. Older-style cocoa mvc rendering was also based on the view<->controller connection, which may act as a “store” or do something more sophisticated, depending on what you write in delegate methods. These comparison graphs always involve some “head & shoulders” vs “grey regular shampoo” style narrative.