In my view, none of the mobile OS manufacturers have a good handle on messaging. I don't see why this should be tied to the mobile OS platform. That just make

In my view, none of the mobile OS manufacturers have a good handle on messaging. I don't see why this should be tied to the mobile OS platform. That just makes no sense at all. Should I only be able to communicate with people who use the same type of mobile OS as me? What sort of pre-internet madness is this? Right now, at least for Android, I find facebook (yes, facebook!) to have the best mobile IM client. Light, clean, to the point with some nice UI details and options. And it also has all my contacts. And it is cross platform. And accessible from the web. And standards-based (I can still XMPP in to facebook IM and do everything the web-based client lets me do). Yes. Despite facebook being creepy, it's still miles better than super-creepy Google. After all, it's just one website and unlike Google you know when you interact with it.