I think the value of Slack is in how platform agnostic the whole experience is. I have use it on a Nexus 5, iPhone 5c, iPad, in a browser (both IE and Chrome on

I think the value of Slack is in how platform agnostic the whole experience is. I have use it on a Nexus 5, iPhone 5c, iPad, in a browser (both IE and Chrome on Windows) and as a native OS X application. All work exactly the same way, and all have the same feature set. Push notifications let conversations happen in real-time. You can turn off Jira, Github, Trello notifications and set up integrations in Slack, create #firehose channel, and now you have corralled all those announcements into one spot. If only I could get the other members of my team to use it, I could maybe talk about its chat features.