I'm feeling the same way, I'm thinking it has to do with the amount of people wanting to have a career in tech (including the non-technical folks, business-types and such), the ease of sharing information online, and the notoriety of ycombinator in the startup space.
One of my gripes with iOS is the ability to select a default maps app. It bothers me that when I try to share my location through iMessage, it forces me to view the information by opening apple maps and you cannot copy and paste the location into another mapping app. I believe this was a terrible strategy to get users to use apple maps.