[Technology] Permanent flux and brokenness

So Google Hangouts for Android now supports SMS and IM.  That's great.  Except for when my friend Kevin is messaging me and then half of his messages appear in one app (texts) and the other half another (IMs) indiscriminately and inconsistently.  Trying to chat with him from G+ Hangouts results in me missing random messages, since G+ Hangouts doesn't catch texts.



So, obviously, the next feature we need is letting GMail/G+ manage your texts too.  That would actually be nice, if I could send a text to any friend from my web browser.  My SwiftKey virtual keyboard on my phone is pretty great, but it's still painful have long conversations through compared to a full keyboard.



It's amusing how quickly I stop considering the privacy impact of letting all my communications be hosted remotely together in the same location.



Anyway, it's sad how people have been solving the problem of digital messaging for over thirty years and it's no better now than it was before, or it's worse.