Ease of use and speed are subjective qualities, and so that really invalidates any follow-up I could have; I'd say well-played but essentially all it means is you've covered up a strawman argument. Fact is, you haven't detailed one compelling reason for me to adopt your proprietary messaging platform, and the ones that have been supplied I would argue are insubstantial. By amalgamating several messaging services into one app, Conversations offers much greater usability as it allows me to communicate with ALL of my friends, regardless of their messaging preferences. Again, the only real loss is photo/video sharing, and to be honest 99 times out of 100 it makes more sense to share these items in a public setting, e.g. Facebook. Moreover messaging apps on other platforms do not have this issue, such as webOS.

Looking towards the future, you can see the beginnings forming of all major smartphone platforms adopting platform-agnostic messaging platforms that communicate through their one Messaging app, which will serve as an aggregator. In a future such as this, I will once again pose the question:

Why should I use LiveProfile?