IMHO iCloud and the iCloud connection with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch is worth the price of admission, i.e.. the $30 the Lion upgrade costs. In all the Macs around here, Lion has been completely stable and problem free.
I would absolutely agree with that, if the upgrade to Lion is the only cost.
For me, it's not. I really, really want to use Lion as my main operating system, but I can't; I have one critical app (Adobe GoLive) that requires Rosetta. That means I can't use Lion, at least not all the time.
I recently got a new Mac, an iMac Core i5 (Mid-2011). I deliberately opted not to get the faster iMac (Late 2011) model because the Mid-2011 model will still run Snow Leopard, even though it shipped with Lion. I'm hanging on to Snow Leopard just for the sake of that one PPC app I still rely on.
So it's not *necessarily* true that the cost of entry to iCloud is the upgrade fee for Lion. Part of the cost of entry is abandoning PPC code, which some folks can do easily, but for others of us is more of a problem.
