Is iPad a Cloud Device?

In this intelligent-enterprise article, David Linthicum takes at the association between the iPad and the Cloud and misperceptions that many people hold regarding the device.

Truth-be-told, the iPad has about as much to do with cloud computing as any device that can connect to the Web. While any appliance, which is what this really is, needs to have a robust back-end infrastructure to support the native applications, from on-line banking to Twitter, there is not much new here that we’ve not seen before. Not the architecture, the concept, or even the technology. It looks a bit better, I will give you that.