This would allow a developer to define a table with a special designation called persistent.
Corona would write the contents of that table out before every shutdown. When the corona app starts, the framework would load that table with the last known values from disk.

This way any app that saves user settings could have a simple way to do that, without extensions.

Almost every app needs to save user settings, and restore them the next time it runs. Why not make it part of the OS?

To initialize the table, the programmer would define the table with default values that would be there the first time the app runs, so it would come up in a known state initially.

It would be great to have the player from soundcloud integrated into an app. Imagine to be able to stream from your existing account and be able to customize it, which means to have the option to only get the stream itself without the player UI( still displaying the SC logo for copyright reasons) and be able to control it from outside(play, pause, skip, previous, etc... )

The music stream should definitely be able to play in UIBackgroundMode ( Suspended mode ) too.

Some people would maybe also like to get the chance to upload music into their account straight from the app.

The API is there, Gluon is (almost) there, so why wait?

I've been using the Corona Cloud Leaderboards on my current game and I'm really struggling with the lack of options I have using it.

I've seen people request an option to retrieve only the players' Facebook friends scores once the Leaderboards are requested, and although I think this would be absolutely amazing, the first thing it's lacking for me is a way to actually display the current rank of the player using his ID. It really seems something simple to be added and would be enough for my current project.

It really seems that there are missing some key features on the current Corona Cloud API...

Being able to list the top 25 players score and not the players' current score is quite bizarre.

A Player Lobby system for Corona Cloud needs to be created. It needs to allow players who log in to enter a main lobby and then be able to join games that others users have created, or create their own.
Currently, there is no way for any player to see any match or chat that they do not currently already belong to. Which means, you either have to know the person you want to play with, by name, or you have to leave it up to random matches. In more complex games with 2-4 players and multiple game settings such as map type, resources, etc, random matches is not a great solution at all.

I was wondering if Corona SDK could also implement a form of global encryption of all internal assets during the binary building process, perhaps a key value to put in the build.settings file so it would automatically encrypt everything against that key, to which it would decrypt all files on the fly during program execution on the device.

Similarly, I am hoping for some global method of encryption for files created in System.DocumentsDirectory so that flags and variables for in-app purchases and player stats are protected against hacking and manipulation by an ambitious end-user.

As you are all aware now, any files you save using the standard load/save JSON table code are subject to easy manipulation by anyone who can access the files in iTunes or iPhone Explorer/PhoneView, unless some additional checks and balances are manually put in place.

Code'n'Web came out with a recent update for TexturePacker (not affiliated with software or developer) which allows Cocos2D developers the ability to encrypt their app's assets, since it's fairly simple for an average user to take the IPA file from the App Store, rename it to a ZIP, then unzip the contents for their own illegitimate use.

See here for more information: http://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker/contentprotection

I'm sure a similar implementation can be made for both the System.ResourceDirectory as well as documents placed in System.DocumentsDirectory.