Apparently Steve Jobs has just discovered this thing called the "cloud"- something many of us have been using for ages. I've been syncing bookmarks etc on Opera for several years, and I'm starting to use Ubuntu's One service to sync some items such as tomboy notes . But now Apple has launched its own cloud service which is typically awesome and magical and will cost Apple users unlike the free services offered by some other providers.

I'm not too keen to use cloud services too much though, perhaps with  good reason: