I read through most comments here, and nobody seems to say this so I do. This article is BS, Silicon Valley might not be the cutting edge in mobile, but neither is China. You can't just write a generic article because of few small advances.
Ater working with Storm and reading Nathan Marz's Master thesis, I got to say, he really is one hella of a developer. He was also very responsive on the questions I asked him on Storm's forum. I take Nathan's advice at its face value cause he is the most well-rounded computer scientist you can ever find.