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Depends on implementation
The stability of the cloud depends heavily on its design. Putting all the datacenters in the same place is completely bonkers!
A stable cloud would IMHO need to be spread all over the world (think P2P, F2F technology) in order to have backups if anything goes wrong and also because waiting for a connection from another continent is not as efficient as having a connection on the same backbone (or even same LAN).
When it comes to backups, I think I'll stay in the cloud for now. The guys from SpiderOak seem to have found a *very* secure way to store backups that no-one else but you (not even themselves) can access. And every backup you have there has a few dozen backups of its own. Now that's what I find a smart way to use cloud computing.
P.S. Moult wrote another post explaining Chrome OS's potential impact more in depth