I'm sorry to see them pull the plug so quickly, but it was mostly expected. As a developer of a "companion" communications app, I understand Beeper's frustrati

I'm sorry to see them pull the plug so quickly, but it was mostly expected. As a developer of a "companion" communications app, I understand Beeper's frustration all too well. I really look forward to a world of interoperable instant messaging one day; email is amazingly ubiquitous and it's because of open standards. There are pros and cons to this and, sadly, the biggest "con" is one can't completely control this to monetize the hell out of it (although Google did a pretty good job with Gmail?) and that's why IM is so siloed. Google is pushing the hell out of RCS, but there is still no API on Android for developers to hook into this. Why am I not surprised?