Google has been frustrating with this for a while. Google voice has been ignored for a long time (the chrome plugin is also quite buggy/broken on mavericks).

Google has been frustrating with this for a while. Google voice has been ignored for a long time (the chrome plugin is also quite buggy/broken on mavericks). Voice solved the texting problem with a cross platform whatsapp/iMessage type solution years ago - when they bought gizmo5 I thought they were going to incorporate SIP calling too. Then when hangouts came out I was hoping they'd somehow incorporate voice into that. I'm not sure what the plan is for it, but it seems like nobody is actually on the project.