On 10/27/19 4:46 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, Sean Donelan wrote:
I do not expect Apple, Amazon or Google to do something until forced
too.
The semi-joke amoung the emergency management community, if tech firm
CEOs lived in the mid-west (tornado alley) or south-east (hurricane
coasts) instead of west-coast (silicon valley & seattle), all tech
products would already support emergency alerts.
Somehow, I doubt if their recent experience with wildfires in the Bay
Area will change any tech CEOs' opinions or amazon, google, apple
smart product managers' project plans for supporting emergency alerts.
Samsung is likely the most advanced in this area, because the South
Korean government has been 'encouraging' korean firms for several
years to build emergency alert technology into their products.
Considering that most of the ritzy areas in the silly valley have no
power right now, this may take on a new urgency. Of course none of this
really matters if the network infrastructure isn't backed up. For all of
the money sloshing around the valley, we have really shitty network
infrastructure.
Mike
