GDVC 2022 (Oct 12th)

I was hoping it might be another in-person summit, but I guess it's still too sooon.

With in person, it wasn't only the breakouts and info, but the social side. A chance to hang out with other devs and the Garmin folks for a couple days.

I'm pretty sure AlphaMonkeyC still owes me a beer from the last in-person summit!

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Jan Čapek over 2 years ago +3

I think CIQ is continuously dying thanks to how poorly it is maintained, so there may not be enough of visitors anymore if it will be only in-person summit (apart from few hard-core fans and new business persons…
FlowState over 2 years ago in reply to _psx_ +2

_psx_ said:
And I think CIQ helps Garmin a lot, strange they doesn't take care of it.

I say this a lot but most runners I know use Garmins and most of them don't care about CIQ (and have probably never…
jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to li2niu🏃🏻 +1

I'm in the US. The 3 years there were in-person summits they were in Olathe Kansas, but there were many people there from outside the US!

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enki42ea over 2 years ago in reply to enki42ea

Nope, not for data fields during activities. Kind of annoying when the activity recording part is the main reason many get a garmin over other devices

windfield over 2 years ago in reply to FlowState

so many people have no idea the ConnectIQ store even exists. or if they do, they just think of all of the low quality apps that seem to swamp out any of the good ones. Garmin doesn't help themselves by allowing low reviewed apps to be shown in the Trending or Featured or New sections.

Nick / AlphaMonkeyC is super passionate but is too far down in the weeds imho. Nobody at Garmin seems to really care about the most important piece of the puzzle, the actual Store. If you can't pull in customers, then how do you expect suppliers (ie us developers) to make good product.

enki42ea over 2 years ago in reply to windfield

windfield said:
Garmin doesn't help themselves by allowing low reviewed apps to be shown in the Trending or Featured or New sections.

I'm not sure this is really that simple. For fitness stuff an app could be very useful to a small market and still be a good app. You might not care about muscle oxygen data, and guessing the number of people with a sensor may be small vs number of garmins, but a good muscle oxygen sensor app should still be shown as one of the good apps. I'm not sure that you really want all apps to target having a large appeal. This makes it hard to really identify what is a good app. Maybe if garmin could hand curate apps?

Not sure this task is that hard to do, but is asking garmin to play favorites

windfield over 2 years ago in reply to enki42ea

poor choice of words on my part. should have been more clear and said "poorly reviewed apps". taking a look right now, the #1 trending app is Stravas Relative Effort with 2.5 stars. Why promote something like that as opposed to all of the apps with 4 star or better reviews. And "most popular" is Spotify with 2.5 stars. Why would someone want to download poorly reviewed apps? It's like running a grocery store and putting all the spoiled food out at the very front of the store.

FlowState over 2 years ago in reply to windfield

windfield said:
Nobody at Garmin seems to really care about the most important piece of the puzzle, the actual Store.

Idk how many people use the Garmin Connect store website, but since the beginning it's had an issue where any listing image that's not a perfect square is distorted to make it into one. That means there's a ton of apps whose listing image is basically a distorted Garmin watch / screenshot, which looks terrible IMO.

To me this kind of thing is yet another "lack of attention to detail" issue. The problem could've been solved by either blocking the use of non-square images or allowing the dev to crop the image upon upload (just like so many other apps and sites), but Garmin took the path of least resistance. To be fair, I don't think the Connect IQ store app on Android / iOS has this problem.

enki42ea said:
Maybe if garmin could hand curate apps?

Isn't this kind of what's supposed to be happening with the new-ish "Connect IQ store on device" feature? I think DC Rainmaker mentioned that the selection of apps was lacklustre tho.

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago

I missed State of the Union presentation, and now for the life of me I can't find the video. When and where will it be published?

Also, I saw in the news (https://the5krunner.com/2022/10/12/garmin-app-watchface-of-the-year-2022-ciq-winners-and-nominees-announced/) that Garmin announced The Best Garmin Apps and Watchfaces of 2022. Would someone please point me to the official announcement? Thanks!

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

It's usually a week or two later, but it's usually just the breakouts (without the Q&A part) and without things like the "State of the Union"

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Last year "State of the Union" was published and it was kind of a big deal...

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

That was DCR if I recall. This year it was the product managers for different things (fitness, outdoor, edger), And Alpha Monkey did his part.

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

MobileDriveway said:
I missed State of the Union presentation, and now for the life of me I can't find the video. When and where will it be published?

Also, I saw in the news (https://the5krunner.com/2022/10/12/garmin-app-watchface-of-the-year-2022-ciq-winners-and-nominees-announced/) that Garmin announced The Best Garmin Apps and Watchfaces of 2022. Would someone please point me to the official announcement? Thanks!

AlphaMonkeyC would you please let us know when the videos and The Best Garmin Apps and Watchfaces of 2022 announcement will be available? Thanks!