Why do I need local copies of all my iOS Apps?

Now that my iPad and iPhone back up to iCloud do I need to keep local copies of all my Apps in iTunes? When I restored my iPhone 4S from iCloud it downloaded all the apps from iCloud rather then from my local copies. My Mobile Applications folder is 15GB and since I can't run iOS Apps on my computer I really don't see the point of keeping this massive archive around given my limited 256GB MacBook Air's storage.
Any expertise is appreciated! I'll try moving the files to my external and seeing if anything goes horribly wrong.
Best, Alex

Update
I tested my theory by deleting an app from iTunes. The app still showed on the Apps spring board organizer view in iTuens but not in the left hand list. After I Sync'd my iPhone it was no longer present on the iTunes spring board organizer or on my device. Looks like you still need to keep local copies of all your apps in iTunes. Unchecking "Sync Apps" presents you with a warning that app apps and their data will be removed.
It just seems useless to have local copies of iOS apps on my computer. I'm using more drive space for iOS apps (15GB) on my computer then Mac Apps(10GB)! I thought that my mac was demoted to a device and the cloud was now the truth!
May I suggest, the addition of a check box on the Advanced iTunes preference that says "Keep local copies of App Store purchases" so that I may uncheck it. Keeping a local xml feed of what apps I've purchased and maybe a local copy of the high res icon artwork should be sufficent to facilitate this. (Naturally there's a good amount of work to do under the hood on iTunes, the iTunes servers and in iOS as well.)

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