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For instance, this article seems to have been spawned by the recent Businessweek article re: financial forecasts for the airline industry and specifically what it may do to VA: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-10-17/virgin-america-t...

The tone of this particular write-up sounded very doom and gloom when in actuality VA seems to be following the annual trends of the airline industry while also pursuing an aggressive growth strategy. Not unlike many extremely popular startups (whether it works out or not, well, that's still quite a few years away).

This article has quite a bit more info: http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Virgin-America-a-hit-...

Sounds like they are getting ready to slow down expenses next year and prep for an IPO.

Not really sure what's made this particular article stick and make the rounds but it's conveniently short on info seemingly to make a more dramatic story.

From my understanding some of the discounts swap out regularly. For instance the UPS and FedEx ones are gone.

So it kind of depends on what you do. If you travel once or twice a year it might be a good go. I'd try to get the 295 price if possible. At 295 I'd highly recommend it. At 495 you'd need to spend some time looking at their discounts and seeing if the economics work.

Damaging the iPad is a concern, so is theft. But there are too many scenarios there to analyze the economics of each. For instance, say an iPad + eBooks replaces a laptop with textbooks, the iPad is cheaper to replace than a laptop. What if you lose your book bag full of 5 new 80 dollar text books, then it's a wash. The cost of 8 semesters worth of textbooks might be more expensive than the cost of 3 499 iPads + eBooks. So forth.

Textbooks + iPad versions. More of a problem in college than high school where the schools often have long term contracts with the publishers.

All in all, it seems like a step in the right direction. Also, one can imagine that Apple is going to keep the iPad 2 on the market at a reduced cost when the iPad 3 comes out, similarly to what they've done with the iPhone. So over time it'll become even more cost effective.

Schools can loan out iPads that they get at a discount from Apple, or colleges can even include them in the cost of tuition. I know quite a few people in college right now that receive a Macbook Pro as part of their college tuition (with no option to decline it and save on tuition). So an iPad would be significantly cheaper than that, and arguably just as useful for most college curriculums.

A lot of great stuff going on in the 2.0 version. Excited for it's release.

We recently added Pin It buttons too, not because we felt Pinterest was an amazing way to help curate and sell product. But because people were adding our products to Pinterest quite a bit anyways and they weren't correctly tagged, attributed, or priced. So we made the decision to add the Pin It button to assist with that.

Might as well if they are doing it already. I imagine Etsy saw something similar and did the same.

Since doing that, nothing has really changed as far as conversions or traffic, but at least most of the images are pinned with proper data now.

I'll never understand fluff pieces like this that hit on the argument 'we need less "friends" so we can share more with them'.. failing to realize that maybe a lot of people enjoy passively keeping in touch with people from high school / college that they may have absolutely no contact with otherwise.

But how many ways can you really present something like that in a pleasing manner.

I assume they work almost the same. I'm on the Mixpanel side of things so would be interested in hearing how Kiss is in comparison. Anyone use both?

I don't want to rag on Zendesk. I've been using them for years. But with stupid remarks like this, their incredibly slow / almost non-existent development on the product, and lackluster support have me keeping an eye out for replacements.

Kind of dangerous with stuff like Assistly looming out there.

That said, I'm not sure an entire domain name was warranted for this. I thought it was just a blog post at first.

It's more like 162 bucks a month for a comparable reserved EC2 instance. And 208 a month for a comparable reserved RDS instance. And that's of course with a 12 month commitment.

You can't really compare EC2 to an offering like this because you're paying for the amount of time / labor costs it frees up. And of course RDS doesn't support Postgres so there's not a lot of competition at the moment.

Additionally Readability has stated that they're still figuring out their business model, where as Marco has had a steady income for a long time now. It's entirely possible that Readability vanishes in a few years and Instapaper is still around.

Is linked during the 'Request Demo' signup (which should't need my phone # btw)..

I think you meant to link /terms/

Link bait.