Comment 20 for bug 1247216

@kai-mast Google's and Facebook's use of XMPP may not be elegant (especially FB's), but it is a usable back end solution that allows people to migrate more seamlessly from Android—it is probably the biggest impediment to my personal adoption of Ubuntu Touch on my phone. It doesn't have to be a perfect solution, especially now at the beginning where most people using UT are early adopters who understand that it may still be a few years before everything works as smoothly as we're accustomed to from other systems.