I have read an iPhone book there i find the user's Documents directory is with the code:

[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"];

but that seems slightly brittle, and dissimiliar to the normal Mac way of doing it, which would be:

NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentsDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);

Is there any particular reasons to use one over the other?