On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:45:23 -0700, William Herrin said:
In many cases, only the foreground app has a clear understanding of the state of the screen. Not the OS and definitely not the hardware platform. I'd be super pissed if I died in Overwatch because the BIOS tried to take over the screen to display an amber alert.
Would you be super pissed if you died for real because Overwatch suppressed a tornado or other severe weather alert relevant to your location? Serious question here. Seems like the amber alert problem is a configuration issue - just tell your device's system configuration manager to not interrupt with amber alerts, just post a small "there is an alert" status of some sort. My Android-based phone tells me in a little thing in the top bar that I have 2 Google News items, a missed phone call, and some Skype activity - it shouldn't be difficult to add "3 weather alerts, 2 Amber alerts and a partridge in a pear tree" to it. And doing a similar thing for any device smart enough to play Overwatch shouldn't be a big technical hurdle in 2019.