It’s amazing how my personal photos move around effortlessly between my iPhone, the iPad and iPhoto on the MacBook, by virtue of Apple’s iCloud. They just “show up” when I want them, as if by magic (sorry, but this marketing slogan is somewhat appropriate here).

So is iCloud a Personal Cloud, in the sense it has been discussed recently?

I don’t think so. iCloud doesn’t feel like a thing to me. It’s more like some proactive ether around me that magically moves stuff around without ever making an appearance itself.

I think something like ownCloud has a much better claim to delivering a Personal Cloud.