Electronica Yo quería a Telecentro

Electronica Leyendo los últimos newsletters de Prince & Cooke no me llamó la atención que el 55% de los consultados para el Estudio de Triple Play 2008 dijeran que están dispuestos a contratar de un solo proveedor telefonía fija, internet y TV por cable.

El porcentaje, dice el trabajo, se mantiene prácticamente sin cambios desde el estudio realizado el año pasado y tiene como principales posibles adoptantes a los hogares que hoy tienen los tres servicios y en los que no hay TV paga.

El principal motivo para que estos hogares cambien es la posible reducción de precio y la comodidad de centralizar todo en un único proveedor. Por el contrario, los motivos que sustentan la no contratación en 'paquete' son la posibilidad de elegir al mejor proveedor para cada uno de los servicios y la no dependencia de un único prestador.

Las primeras marcas que se vienen a la cabeza de los consultados son:
Telecom en la categoría Telefonía fija, aunque no hay una diferencia relevante con Telefónica. En Telefonía móvil, Movistar ocupa la primera posición, seguida por Claro con una distancia de 10 puntos. En cuanto a internet (si bien son muy bajos los índices de respuesta) Arnet-Telecom y Speedy-Telefónica son las que lideran (en ese orden), pero con un porcentaje prácticamente similar. En donde surge un liderazgo absoluto de Top of Mind es en la categoría TV paga, donde Cablevisión-Multicanal acumula el 40% de las menciones.

¡Pero yo quería Telecentro en mi casa! ¿Por qué? Si bien no tengo buenas referencias de su banda ancha, la idea de no tener que pagar todo por separado me encantó. Si bien me cambiarían por completo el número de teléfono, la idea de no tener que pagar por separado me encantó. Pero el problema es que no cubren grandes zonas de la Ciudad y sus alrededores.

Vivo en Olivos, a unas cuadras de la Quinta Presidencial, pero Telecentro no me ofrece el servicio. No entiendo. Desde mi punto de vista, ser el primero en brindar el servicio de triple play pierde todo sentido cuando uno llama y le dicen que hasta ahí no llega el servicio. Una vez que una empresa más pequeña tiene la chance de competir con todas las armas contra las grandes, pierde la oportunidad.

Debe ser muy caro ampliar la zona de cobertura… pero mantengo mi posición: no tiene sentido ser el primero si no llegas a cubrir una amplia zona.

Seguiré pagando como gil Telecom, Arnet y Cablevisión.Recomiento Descuentos Viajes

blog Android Apps Break the 50MB Barrier

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Android applications have historically been limited to a maximum size of 50MB. This works for most apps, and smaller is usually better — every megabyte you add makes it harder for your users to download and get started. However, some types of apps, like high-quality 3D interactive games, require more local resources.

So today, we're expanding the Android app size limit to 4GB.

The size of your APK file will still be limited to 50MB to ensure secure on-device storage, but you can now attach expansion files to your APK.

• Each app can have two expansion files, each one up to 2GB, in whatever format you choose.

• Android Market will host the files to save you the hassle and cost of file serving.

• Users will see the total size of your app and all of the downloads before they install/purchase.

On most newer devices, when users download your app from Android Market, the expansion files will be downloaded automatically, and the refund period won't start until the expansion files are downloaded. On older devices, your app will download the expansion files the first time it runs, via a downloader library which we've provided below.

While you can use the two expansion files any way you wish, we recommend that one serve as the initial download and be rarely if ever updated; the second can be smaller and serve as a "patch carrier," getting versioned with each major release.

Helpful Resources

In order to make expansion file downloading as easy as possible for developers, we're providing sample code and libraries in the Android SDK Manager.

• In the Google Market Licensing package, an updated License Verification Library (LVL). This minor update mostly adds the ability to obtain expansion file details from the licensing server.

• From the Google Market APK Expansion package, the downloader service example. The library makes it relatively simple to implement a downloader service in your application that follows many of our best practices, including resuming downloads and displaying a progress notification.

Because many developers may not be used to working with one or two large files for all of their secondary content, the example code also includes support for using a Zip file as the secondary file. The Zip example implements a reasonable patching strategy that allows for the main expansion file to "patch" the APK and the patch file to "patch" both the APK and the main expansion file by searching for asset files in all three places, in the order patch->main->APK.

Expansion File Basics

Expansion files have a specific naming convention and are located in a specific place for each app. As expansion files are uploaded to the publisher site, they are assigned a version code based upon the version of the APK that they are associated with. The naming convention and location are as follows:

Location: <shared-storage>/Android/obb/<package-name>/
Filename: [main|patch].<expansion-version>.<package-name>.obb
Example: /sdcard/Android/obb/com.example.myapp/main.5.com.example.myapp.obb

Expansion files are stored in shared storage. Unlike APK files, they can be read by any application.

Downloading and Using the Expansion Files

When the primary activity for the app is created, it should check to make sure the expansion files are available. The downloader library provides helper functions (for example the "Helpers" class in the code below) to make this easy.

boolean expansionFilesDelivered() {      // get filename where main == true and version == 3      String fileName = Helpers.getExpansionAPKFileName(this, true, 3);      // does the file exist with FILE_SIZE?      if (!Helpers.doesFileExist(this, fileName, FILE_SIZE, false)) {          return false;      }      return true;  }

If the file does not exist, fire up the downloader service with DownloaderClientMarshaller.startDownloadServiceIfRequired(). The downloader will perform an LVL check against the server. This check will deliver the names of the files, file sizes, and the file URLs.

Once that check has been completed, it will begin downloading the files. You don't have to use our download solution, but you might want to because we:

• Include a notification UI that provides progress and estimated completion time in layouts customized for ICS and pre-ICS devices

• Resume large files safely

• Handle redirection with appropriate limits

• Run in the background as a service

• Pause and resume downloads when WiFi is not available

Enjoy! We can't wait to see what kinds of things developers do with this! For more information about how to use expansion files with your app, read the APK Expansion Files developer guide.

[This post wasn't actually written by anyone, but bashed out by a posse of engineering and product-management people. Heavy bashers included Dan Galpin, Ilya Firman, Andy Stadler, Michael Siliski, and Ellie Powers.]

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