But GTalk isn't 'really, really good' from my perspective/experience. - Multiple sign-ins cause issues all the time (Gtalk in GMail, GTalk on the phone/tablet

But GTalk isn't 'really, really good' from my perspective/experience. - Multiple sign-ins cause issues all the time (Gtalk in GMail, GTalk on the phone/tablet is already enough to cause it to go nuts and send messages here or there, seemingly random). It _could_ allow me to specify what I prefer (XMPP should support that), but it doesn't. - Loses messages all the time (every ~10th message doesn't arrive. My wife and me stopped using it for anything of value because of this) - Hangout. The "We don't like XMPP anymore, want to force you to use G+ and .. have the most ugly show-me-some-comic-bubbles interface to make the transition extra smooth" app Actually I wouldn't be surprised if the issue is hangout, not GTalk-the-original-xmpp-thing.