Slow iPod Backup : some Apps are the cause !

Hello,
A lot of complaining has been heard on slow backup of iPod Touch. It seems some Apps are the cause of this issue : for example LinkedIn will create a backup file for every person - and every contact of that person - you ever visited !
Same is true for some newspaper sites, keeping every article ever read in a file ...
Currently my backup directory contains 23.000+ files, which is of course ridiculous.
- Apps developers : please be aware that every file created will cost approx 4 sec of backup time - not a problem in itself, except when you have 1000+ of them for a single Apps
- Apple : please use a mechanism of sub-directories, having 23k files in a single directory is madness, and makes it hard to identify the "guilty" applications.
Thanks for responding to these suggestions ...

Welcome to the discussions,
this is a user to user forum, and Apple does not read these posts. You can address Apple directly here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html or http://www.apple.com/support/feedback/
I'm sure developers are amongst us in these forums and will read your post

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