If there is any validity to the X-Windows comparison, none of those questions make any sense. Substitute and you get "I'm on X-Windows, hit me up" or "Yeah, I switched over to the X-Windows Matt's running," which no one would ever say.
I agree that the coverage so far have said exactly the kinds of things you are saying. I never understood what they were really getting at, but this article makes a lot more sense to me. It is mainly a protocol, and what the press are calling "Wave" is just a demo app that Google put together.
In this case, though, I think the press are right. What really matters is what people do with the software, not what happens underneath. It's our job as nerds to get it from a communications protocol to a community.
I agree that the coverage so far have said exactly the kinds of things you are saying. I never understood what they were really getting at, but this article makes a lot more sense to me. It is mainly a protocol, and what the press are calling "Wave" is just a demo app that Google put together.