
Steve Jobs keynote address at the WWDC was interesting. It seems that Apple has a different take on their cloud strategy. For them, the cloud should be transparent to the users. Users don't interact with the cloud - they don't even see it. Apps do all the work in the background. And I think this is the right cloud model. Let the apps do the legwork, instead of us. Please don't make us interact with the file system.
He even poked at the competitions' cloud model, stating that "other think that the cloud is a big hard disk in the sky." Perhaps this is the first iteration of cloud computing. I may be dating myself but the Internet has always been a cloud. I remember myself (and my network engineers) drawing schematics of network infrastructure and using the cloud icon to symbolize the Internet.
The cloud has always been with us. It's just that now, Apple has decided we don't need to see it. Great for us.