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

Mon Oct 28 00:00:09 UTC 2019

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.

In other news, Generac has been doing land office business lately.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/25/generac-soars-to-a-record-as-pge-power-cuts-cause-business-to-boom.html

Mike