After indulging myself with a somewhat nerdy afternoon cutting and refactoring and cutting till I could get the functionality of this one https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/542d099f-4f5d-46af-8c71-11c17c4f2f1c to run on a CIQ1 device following a user request (I managed and am just waiting on approval for it to go live, but only by exploring devices.xml to find that Epix, for some reason, has eight times as much memory as every other CIQ1, to let me get to a point it would run at all before I started cutting) I started to wonder; is supporting CIQ1 just a nerdy, abstract and slightly Zen way to purify the soul or is it a valid thing for DF developers to consider?
And, of course, like all big questions, it is only truly answerable with data that is either hard to come by or fully unavailable.
Anecdotally, after talking to a few people in my triathlon club, I can say that there are definitely some people still using CIQ1 watches - you see a fair few 920xt still running, for example. And, obviously, the guy with his FR235 who wanted my Dialistic field is still on CIQ1.
However, that number must surely be declining (even if only because I know the 920xt sometimes falls off its strap and, again anecdotally, this means there is at least one deep down in the sea in Dun Laoghaire harbour following the most recent "Ironman 70.3" there).
So...
Obviously it would be very rough, but Garmin must have some rough ideas (from the Garmin Connect infrastructure) how many CIQ1 devices are still out there in current use.
Is there any way at all for us humble developers to gauge the proportions of users on older devices and so divine whether or not it is worth supporting CIQ1 any more?
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