No argument here. It's really a shame and, if you think about it, email is the least evolved method of electronic communication for the masses in every day use

No argument here. It's really a shame and, if you think about it, email is the least evolved method of electronic communication for the masses in every day use (with the exception of possibly IRC). BBM would have been the ideal email replacement (it's also still extremely popular in Asia), but too bad it's proprietary and centralized.