The same goes for many other icons. Like rss, wifi, and shutdown icon.
It makes sense, because once an icon becomes popular reinventing it with another design makes people confused.
It makes sense, because once an icon becomes popular reinventing it with another design makes people confused.
The iCloud "cloud" icon was designed to represent a product, which implies other products could/should have found something else.
Apple's iCloud icon is a cloud icon. Apple's branding strategy is to hijack and monopolize common words like "apple", a warbof conquest against the English language