Re: Should Netflix and Hulu give you emergency alerts?

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2019, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> On 3/9/19 12:03 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > Automatically geo-locating indoor smart speakers and smart TVs is more 
> > difficult, but if advertisers can get geolocation information from AT&T, 
> > Amazon, Apple, Google, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, etc; why can't emergency 
> > alerts?
>
> There's no technical reason emergency alerts can't be geo located. But 
> advertisers pay for it; emergency alerts aren't revenue generating.

In other words, only rich people deserve to be warned.

Poor people.... Well, I guess they are poor and don't buy enough stuff 
from advertisers to be considered "revenue generating."

Is that why Amazon, Apple and Google don't have emergency alerts as part 
of their "smart devices?"  Good PR move.

Amazon Alexa will alert me as it tracks my package of stuff, but won't 
warn me about the tornado about to destroy my neighborhood.