Don't GTalk the talk if you can't GWalk the walk.

Google is claiming that anyone can now talk. Come on Google! How could anybody claim such nonsense.

I expected an announcement that a Mac and Linux client had been released and special mesh network version was to be included in the One Laptop per Child project.

We can only hope that Google Talk will announce the following, so that they can make a new post with the same title that will be closer to the truth:
1. Finally release native clients for Mac and Linux. Saying that they will, is just teasing.
2. Support SIP. As I posted over a year ago in this blog (the post is not hard to find), I believe that this will be what turns Google Talk into a killer app.

Now imagine further into the future, the Google Search appliances are extended and introduce Google Office Appliance - a device that provides search (obviously), SIP PBX/Gateway, provides a local cache of the Google Spreadsheets, Writely etc, for persistence and high-performance.

So I say again. Come on Google Give us the choices that you talk about.

Or is it just talk....