Not that it takes away from the point but this passage:

  Unfortunately, the problems the average 22-year-old male programmer has experienced
  are all about being an affluent single guy in Northern California.
  That’s how we’ve ended up with so many games (Angry Birds, Flappy Bird,
  Crappy Bird) and all those apps for what one start-up founder described
  to me as cooler ways to hang out with friends on a Saturday night.

Strikes me as odd as neither Angry Birds nor Flappy Bird were make by people in California and I doubt either games' core audience is 22 year old technologists.