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by blowski 3728 days ago
Agreed. Amongst non-technical people, 'in the cloud' just means 'somewhere on the internet'. For example, if I backup my iPhone onto iTunes on my laptop then that's not on the cloud, but if backup to iCloud then it's on the cloud.

I guess it's frustrating that cloud means quite different things depending on the context, but I guess that's true of a lot of language.