Is the Cloud overrated?

[ElPolloDiabl]

I have no doubt in the future everything will come with a wireless connection. As for moving to the 'cloud' I've really lost interest in it's potential. Onlive are going to charge $15 a month subsription just to play demos or watch trailers, you have to digitally purchase a game if you want to play it. Storage is dirt cheap and I find it more convenient to copy movies/music straight across to my mobile rather than fiddling around with uploads and downloads.
Google seems convinced the cloud is the future. Do you think Google is just pushing their business model?

[ElPolloDiabl]

What's the difference between thin client and cloud computing? Seems to me there are very weak differences.

Cloud is at the mercy of someone elses servers and your internet connection.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Sorry.. What is Cloud ?

It mostly means productivity software is not installed on your computer. Instead you rent it from some place like Google an access it with an internet connection.
If you were a business your big database would not be in the building, it would hosted by another company.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Have any of you thought that a forum dedicated to a long dead computer system, that supports a community that barely has functional browsers might not be the place to look for the most valid opinions related to new ideas in computing?

Amiga was once at the leading edge of computing, why wouldn't I want to know what true enthusiasts think of a new concept? Low spec and lean machines are a good candidate for cloud computing. It's one thing that you could progress, but is anyone going to do anything useful with it?