Exactly. It's easy to tout this 'cloud' based world as a looming, common-place utopia when you're an uber nerd who is completely detached from everyday 'normal' people who barely understand the basic concepts of the internet/web, or who have severely lacking bandwidth and data usage quotas.
Or who has never experienced the bill-shock nightmare that is international data roaming. Always on is nice if you live in a city with good coverage and you can afford the bill.