Texting 911 via RCS is coming to Google Messages (www.theverge.com)

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Google Messages will support texting 911 via RCS starting this winter, offering features like location sharing and read receipts. This upgrade improves emergency texting which is already supported by over half of US dispatch centers. Google collaborates with RapidSOS for enhanced responder info. This announcement precedes Apple's expected RCS support in iOS 18, aiming to broaden RCS adoption.

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[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

TFW 911 leaves you on read

[-] ddonuts4@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Great now it can fail to send my emergency text messages too

[-] ddonuts4@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Message not delivered. Recipient may be offline.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck rcs until Google opens it up.

[+] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's "open" except for the proprietary stuff Google layered on top, and that the only RCS implementation Google has allowed on Android is their own, and a couple of derivatives of their own, where they had to sign an agreement with Google.

So in actual practice, not open. Even if the standard technically is.

Right now, if you want to make an RCS app independent of Google, you'd also need to make a new OS. Or fork Android and do major work on it.

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Google owns Rcs. Nobody else is capable of doing what they're doing with it, and they don't let anyone else play.

No third party apps, no way to choose other implementations.

Nobody really gives a fuck about the standard itself being "open" if there's no ability for an end user to have any choice is the matter. It's Google or GTFO.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's actually a second player: Samsung

But aside from the two of them, yeah, closed. Basically the protocol the servers use to talk to each other is open, but whether they'll want to talk to your server is undocumented and unlikely, and the protocols Google and Samsung use to talk from their servers to their respective apps are closed.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

911 deals with road obstructions? I thought that would be DOT.

[-] Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Most municipalities have a non-emergency line to handle things like this. Road obstructions, noise complaints, and the like may well be handled by 911 operators, but calls to the non-emergency line are handled as the lowest priority.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

They do here in Montreal, I reported a compost bin abandoned in the middle of Decarie the other day and they sent the SQ.

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 6 points 3 weeks ago

this is very good, im glad to hear emergency services continue to adopt modern technology

this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024

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