This is a fascinating response, for a couple of reasons. The primary reason is that I never mentioned power consumption at all. I'm not sure what claim you th

This is a fascinating response, for a couple of reasons. The primary reason is that I never mentioned power consumption at all. I'm not sure what claim you think I'm making in that regard. The secondary reason is that I never said anything about easier to use or even better experience -- I talked about the fact that WhatsApp worked at all on j2me devices. And for the record, I only even mentioned WhatsApp because the original article in question brought it up in the very first paragraph. As for gchat and facebook chat, I'm not sure 'arbitrarily yanked out from under users' is "worked fine." See my other comment for the classes of problems I found with "actual" xmpp/jabber...