"The Cloud" is *SO* overrated!
Nothing like "single point of failure" (consisting of multiple nodes) to screw up reliability. Free P2P was one of the coolest features that Skype had... [I used to pay for skype access for certain kinds of long distance calls, but not any more - it has been YEARS, in fact, since I did that]
"The Cloud" - _SO_ overrated. even 'google docs' hasn't been immune to widespread outages.