> We thought skype/sms/gtalk was good enough Nooooo we didn't. Skype is garbage (on Linux and in general), sms is fast and unreliable and expensive (to the con

> We thought skype/sms/gtalk was good enough Nooooo we didn't. Skype is garbage (on Linux and in general), sms is fast and unreliable and expensive (to the consumers) but effectively free (to the gate keepers), gtalk was cancelled in favor of hangouts, which has lots of room for improvement (both in general and for organizations). Snapchat and WhatsApp are priming for their big sell outs where they transform into some nightmarish shitware/spyware/adware. IRC is cool for underground hacking circles, but without a good GUI and reliable offline messages, IRC is dead on arrival if you need non-techies involved in a serious work environment. If anything, this market has been screaming and begging for disruption.