By "the cloud" he really means "any service not run locally" which equates to "the web". You could argue that not all websites lock your data in, but neither do

By "the cloud" he really means "any service not run locally" which equates to "the web". You could argue that not all websites lock your data in, but neither do all cloud services, so I don't see the difference between the two. Funny, that word seems to morph meaning all the time. I think at some point it used to mean a bunch of remote computers-for-hire that one could easily push computation of any size off to, and easily increase or decrease the processing power of. Sort of like abstracting out the hardware problem. I thought that definition was the one that warranted a separate name the most, if any of them did. I could have sworn it meant that at some point ...