> Unfortunately tied to your phone number > ... > What's wrong with tying this to your Google account? Or, as I recently learned after switching to Project Fi,

> Unfortunately tied to your phone number > ... > What's wrong with tying this to your Google account? Or, as I recently learned after switching to Project Fi, the worst of both worlds where I am forbidden from using Google Voice on my Fi phone because ... reasons? I can't even navigate to the Voice website without considerable hoopjumpery because Chrome realizes that I'm on a Fi phone and immediately redirects me to the Play store where I can install Fi - you know, that app that came with my Fi phone? Just damn. I'm with that other commenter: I thought, mistakenly, for a while there that we were going to have chat interop, if not from XMPP then from the multiple WebRTC products. But, ha ha, I must be new here.