I think that everyone was probably put off that this was a total ripoff of Louie CKs bit. More credit should have been given at the top of the article.
It was better with the credit buried. Those who know, know. There was this delightful, hopeful, uncertainty at first. "Is he going to pull a Louis CK riff? I think he is...yes!"
Then it was a matter of seeing if he was going to drop the ball (there were some fumbles) but maybe "x is awesome and nobody is happy" will be the aristocrats for a less obscene demographic.
So yeah, we can bitch about the 19 location-aware social cloud startups announced each day, but it's also good to get frickin' excited with what you can do for free with some stuff you download onto a laptop while on an airplane.
Imagine going up to your 8-year old self and saying,"You know that Atari 800 you love second only to your dog? Look at my PHONE! It could tell you the weather right where we are, without having to tell it where we were! I could look up what you were doing right now! Um, look at these birds going after these pigs!"
