I've just installed 10.1.1, and notice that AGSTile, AGSTileOperation classes are gone. I rely heavily on offline basemaps in exploded .jpg form.
The reason I'm not keen on switching to .tpk: We have 6+ GB of base map data to load up on a dozen iPads. It will take 8-10 hours per if we're lucky. Any tiny change to the baseman requires a complete replacement of the .tpk, whereas now I can replace the file that changed.