It amazes me that a company of Verizon’s resources, technological depth cannot write and subsequently support a messaging app on the desktop to consumers. This is certainly not the iMessage app equivalent, far from it. The app deteriorated in performance and eventually it was unusable. It was like start the app from scratch every single time it was initiated. After that reinstall, the app could not keep any of its settings, each app start sent me back to the setup where it would ask that I put in my mobile number - previous settings such as hide upon login would also not be retained. When I deleted this pic everything worked fine but I had to reinstall the app. It kept crashing constantly and I eventually located the problem to a picture in a specific message. Seemed to work fine for the first 3-4 days but then something happend and the app came to halt. I was very excited, but had a little apprehension given that this is Verizon software, about this messaging app when I first installed it.