I'm curious about how this will work on the receiving end - is that part of the infrastructure also provided by Apple or is there a common capability by 911 dispatch software to support incoming video?
I've worked with two 911 computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems (both from Motorola, but varying wildly in quality and provenance) and neither has any such thing. Both don't directly handle phone calls either, however. They have APIs that interface to the phone and radio systems to move traffic between. In the case of the PSAP (a Public Safety Answering Point, aka a 911 call center) I support the caller is being handled by one system that passes the calling number (ANI), static telco-provided geolocation/metadata (ALI), and live GPS geolocation to the CAD system. Aside from these defined interfaces the systems are separate islands and function (and, more importantly, fail) separately.
Edit: Text messages are handled by a third-party with a SIP-based interface (running over a VPN across the Internet) to the phone system. My guess would be this is how video will be brought in. These third parties are already positioned in the telco system to handle this effectively (from a regulatory perspective).
When I was a financial auditor, one of the tests on revenue we did was a concentration test, since having a large portion of your revenue coming from a few customers is a risk to business continuity. Wonder how Nvidia folks are thinking of mitigations for that.
“ Does aspartame cause cancer? There’s a small chance that the answer is yes – but probably only if you consume 50 Diet Cokes every day from birth until death – and even then, we don’t have any evidence that this cancer would lead to premature death. At consumption levels equivalent to the ADIs set by the FDA and other organizations – let alone at lower, more typical intake levels – we have no more reason to suspect aspartame as a carcinogenic threat than we have for suspecting carcinogenicity from chewing with your mouth open or wearing flip-flops in wintertime.”
If you like this, I can only recommend Will Larson’s (the author of the blog post) book called “An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management” published by Stripe Press. It a collection of very tactical things of how to think about engineering careers and managing others.
My team uses Evernote Premium, which shares collaboration features with Business, I believe, and it feels like any sort of collaboration is really an afterthought, for example:
* the complete note gets locked when someone simply places a cursor anywhere in the note, just like in the days of carbon/master copies and check-in/check-outs.
* work chat is meaningless, I have hardly seen anyone use it beyond the automatically-generated messaged when you share a note
* notes shared with you are ONLY accessible from the work chat, there is no menu item to access a list of notes that have been shared with me.
