Describe the cloud to someone who is much less experienced and doesn't use new technology. Basically put it in layman's terms. Add a few important examples that would make it easier to understand.
The cloud represents a place where your data is stored and where it can also be accessed from different devices and locations. Your data are things like pictures, personal notes, and anything else that might be on any one of your devices. Here is an example of one way you can imagine the cloud in practice:

- You receive an e-mail from a friend. You can access the mail app on your smartphone or choose to open the email on your computer. The email can be accessed from a computer at your desk at home or at your desk at work downtown. Simultaneously, you can choose to read the same email on your smartphone on the subway, walking, or at the cafe. Where that email lives, the space where the email is stored is on the cloud.

Now, on the other hand, you have data that is stored on the device and is linked to that device only. For example:

- You take a photo. This photo now lives on your phone. Since there is no program or application syncing your devices together, it doesn't move to the cloud. It can't be accessed in the same way you would be if it were stored in the cloud. 