Re: U.S. Senate: READI Act 2019 re-introducted

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

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