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> Google also has the power to immediately disable Microsoft Teams on most Android devices, until the fix is rolled out.

This seems heavy handed and unreasonable. Disrupting millions of people's lives to fix an unusual use-case (even if it might be life or death) is not proportionate.

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>This seems heavy handed and unreasonable.

Only in our dystopian software hellscape where we rely on software for absolutely everything, but get considered a rube for expecting anything to actually be reliable.

Wanting a 911 call to go through is an unusual use case?

It kind of is. How many times have you ever called 911? I never have.

Depends on where you live. Here in Baltimore I’ve called about 5-6 times in the past 2 years.

They could disable the app only on devices that Google believes are impacted, not to mention not waiting an entire month to release a platform update that would fix the root issue.

As per Thier comment, Android 10 and up all devices. They would have to essentially take down Teams on android.

> They would have to essentially take down Teams on android.

Yes, and Google product managers can always choose to not act immediately, continue to allow the disruption of emergency calls on Android devices until the next app and scheduled OS update, and become felons.

Had it been a single guy popular app it would have had to kiss it's existence on android goodbye, in the case of MS, not so fast..

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