Comment 6 for bug 253765

don't forget the voice/video support. Most of the things you enjoy about pidgin are because theres billions of plugins that make that possible, if you take all plugins out of pidgin, it wouldn't compare with empathy very well.

Another note, is that empathy is still being upgraded and fixed and etc.. as its still a ways away until Gnome 2.28.

Join #telepathy if you get a chance and talk to the devs.