"There was a time when building a cutting edge web app meant wasting hours setting up a Linux server, days installing MySQL and Ruby or PHP, and months slaving away writing backend server code. Web development was nasty, brutish, and long. It sucked. But that was the past. Parse is the future. And it’s here today."

Never ever present your product from talking nagative about something or someone else. The only thing this kind of presentation makes me think is "Gee - didn't they have anything good to say about their product?"