On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
> Yes, that's exactly my point: it should just be a requirement of the
> hardware platform to implement this. Just like e911. Enumerating the
> types of devices that are required to implement this is way easier than
> enumerating the types of apps/sites that need to implement it. All the
> government needs to do is set up the server infrastructure to source the
> alerts.

Hi Mike,

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.