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I get it, this is sorta a one off thing, but it irks me when super basic functionality of the phone is unstable, such as making a literal phone call.
On my pixel 4 it failed to call 911 when i needed it once. The phone literally crashed and hung up. But here you know what worked really well? Google tracking me all over the Internet… that never once failed!
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That would be a passion project. I find it hard to conceive of Teams as a passion project, except possibly by people who have a passion for hating the world.
If Microsoft has a penchant for hiring people passionate about hating the world that would explain a lot of their software over the years.
This article, dating back to January, lays it out pretty clearly: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-fixes-nightma... > If you're logged out, launching Microsoft Teams 10 times will result in 10 duplicate PhoneAccounts from Teams clogging your phone. Teams shouldn't do this, and Microsoft's update stopped Teams from doing this, but a bunch of duplicate PhoneAccounts also shouldn't be enough to bring Andro…
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It's not $1000 anymore but you can still buy "brand new" Pixel 6 in retail stores in EU.
We don't call 911.
Ah yes... the yearly pixel/nexus emergency call bug. I would say it's a total shame for Google that they really have repeating probably life threatening bugs in their phones but they don't seem to care at all.
Google's reply to the reporter in the story says it all: We don't have any comment to provide. They do not care, people need to stop trusting their lives to this company.
The solution is to mandate that emergency numbers be hardwired into phones and thus their operation could not be overwritten by any software whether it be the phone's operating system or any user app.
Moreover, it would make sense for all phones, irrespective of country of origin, to include emergency numbers from all countries, i.e: 911, 112, 000 and any others I'm not aware of. Moreover, all emergency numbers should work—that is no matter what emergency number is dialed it still should connect to the local emergency number.
This is important because tourists/travelers in a different country may be unaware of the emergency number for the country they are visiting. Whilst roaming, the phone would recognize its location by actual location and the carrier its connected to and it would dial the correct number even when the user dials his/her home emergency number.
This is not just a nice hypothetical, there have been multiple instances of US citizens visiting Australia where I am and dialing 911 in an emergency and failing to connect with the local one. Here, as in Europe, the mobile number is 112 and the landline one 000.
Why this wasn't a part of the original ITU 'G' roaming specs is anyone's guess but it's an obvious and very dumb omission.
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It's not like months-long delays to get security updates isn't also incredibly dangerous.
Life safety dangerous is different than "malware steals your nudes" dangerous.