Checked out the app and read the article. The app attempts to have a "personal timeline" similar to twitter. You can view the pictures on the web without using the app, but the problem with that is that they're not in the personal timeline. So the whole thing is basically reduced to an instragram clone.
It's clearly a "version 1" product. But with all their funding, I'm sure Path will iterate and re-release.
Yet another example of mistaking a new startup's state with its vision, from the sort of authors who implore people to "launch early" and then critique them for doing so. Bleh.
They say launch early so you can hear this exact kind of feedback when it's cheaper.