There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe
It puzzles me how the author of this article came to the conclusion that Apple borrrowed/stole its cloud icon from Pictos.Apple's MobileMe was announced on June 6, 2008. From the start, it used the same cloud icon. [1]According to the Pictos web site (and the Wayback Machine), the Pictos collection came into being in 2010. [2][1] http://web.archive.org/web/20080720090522/http://www.apple.c...[2] http://wayback.archive.org/web/20100701000000*/http://pictos...Edit: I thought of one possible explanation. The author, a designer at Microsoft, explains his reason for writing the article is because people accused him of copying Apple's cloud icon for use on ASP.net's website. This made him search for earlier examples than Apple's, to somehow justify using the same cloud shape that so many lazy designers do now.