It is strange that in Big Nerd Ranch iOS 5 book (p.73) and Programming iOS 5 book (O\'Reilly, p.314) (updadte: even Kochan\'s Objective-C book Fourth edition)
By default, an object property is strong, atomic, readwrite. See
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/EncapsulatingData/EncapsulatingData.html