Nicely put, I have sort of thought the same thing about the cloud hype recently. It feels very manufactured in a marketing sort of way. We may be using web sites differently these days but really it's more of the same old thing, we just have better bandwidth and web sites now, isn't it?

Love the dropbox description, have also tried a few of these and as you say they usually try too hard and are quickly forgotten. I wonder how many gigs of mp3s I have left on various services in the name of testing, now forgotten.