I totally agree with the sentiment, and iOS/Android support only is unfortunate at the moment. It's only getting better though, and in a few months the improvements in Famo.us/PhoneGap will be impressive.

(un)Fortunately, I've wasted the hours of getting the payload/etc support working pretty seamlessly, so handling incoming Push's is all done in one place: https://github.com/nicholasareed/internal_app/blob/master/sr...