The next version is called Signal, so there you go. The reasons make sense - SMS as a transport is almost unworkable, there's a lot of crap involved with MMS b

The next version is called Signal, so there you go. The reasons make sense - SMS as a transport is almost unworkable, there's a lot of crap involved with MMS bugs that it would be good to rip out, and it can never be compatible with iOS. A replacement for GCM/push/etc for wakeup would be nice - I wonder what that would look like? - but it'll do for now.