The dumbest thing about the whole "cloud" nonsense is most of this crap is stored in huge buildings on, say it with me class, the ground. I'm guessing satellites are used in some form, and a lot of data passes through cell towers that are all of a couple hundred feet off the ground, but none of this crap is anywhere near a cloud.
As someone else said, "cloud" is just some new term for "Internet." Apple came up with Remote Desktop, so I don't get why the word "remote" can't be used. Alas, I'm fighting a losing battle and I know it. iCloud, woo wee!
Wow! So much misinformation here.
Cloud is not a new term as it was easily being used more than 10 years ago to describe the internet. The earliest use I heard it referred to that was by Cisco but it could have been others.
Also, Apple did not come up with Remote Desktop at least as a buzzword. That goes back much farther. The earliest very popular use of it to me would be Remote Desktop included with Windows XP which was just a year or two before Apple's product but you could go back much farther to where the protocol for Windows Remote Desktop came from at Citrix. It's called RDP for Remote Desktop Protocol. For those who have been around a bit they might even know of products previous to these that went by the name of Remote Desktop. It's a very generic name or Apple and MS couldn't both use it.
As for iCloud though lets not get too excited as not long ago many thought we were going to see iSlates rather than iPads.