NEM Beta will include some special features. Even NEM open Alpha will likely include special features that are not in other coin's launch. For example: NIS codes for secure messaging have been completed and just need GUI to be on Open Alpha. Secure messaging is not even in Nxt NOW 9 month after the coin launch. Talk about the difference between one system's alpha and the other system's so-call advanced stage.
So no one complains that I took a dig at Nxt ? Surprisingly ;-)
I will be happy too. "Secure" is not a correct word. You probably meant "encrypted messaging". Nxt messages are "secure" but not "encrypted" in the core. They chose to not implement encryption in Nxt core and let clients come up with their own encryption scheme. At least one client had implemented encrypted messaging 4 months ago. Of the new clients, OffSpring does it too. Wesley is planning to implement it too with his client.
"Secure" is confused usage of the word in above quote