Garmin only cares about the sale of the R10, not the sotware. Change my mind!

With the personal launch monitor space growing every day it is very reasonable that a greater effort is made by software developers to hold status because of the competition.

However, Garmin's attitude to the R10 is very much tuned to only care about the sale of the hardware, with absolutely no intent to improve their software.

With competing software such as Awesome Golf, E6, and GSPro, which completely outperform Garmin Golf app and Home Tee Hero, it makes you realize their interests are solely in selling the hardware and the software is an afterthought.

Their should realistically be a dedicated app for the R10 itself, but even if that's not in the pipeline, the Garmin Golf app falls behind to the competition by leaps and bounds.

The R10 was pretty disruptive when it launched, it had a lot of traction because of the price and features, and they had a great opportunity to be very dominant in the space.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the primary objective for Garmin is to just sell the R10, and then users can go purchase third party software.

Not sure if this is the best approach for user retention in the long term...

0 odd tore over 1 year ago

To be fair Awesome Golf, E6 and GS Pro are pure software companies that needs a connected launch monitor.

If You look at Awesome Golf that program is not very useful for sim play with only a few courses.

E6 You will have to pay a lot more if You want to include more than 5 courses, and GS Pro is community driven for their courses.

Home Tee Hero has more than 42.000 courses, and can never compete with the simulator driven sw on graphics. But it has its value in that it offers local courses, and that's why I subscribe, not to play Augusta in good graphics. And it's a combination with the watches where I can also get the courses on my watch, wherever I are.

The only serious contender popping up now is Rapsodo MLM2, with over 30.000 courses. But also here the graphics is not competing to the real life courses, but appears slightly better than HTH.

Yes, there are many things that I would like to see in the app, and a lot more features in HTH I would like, but You can't compare a 100 us yearly subsciption with 42.000 courses to a 200 us or more subscription for a couple of hundred courses.

Different uses. If You focus on sim GS Pro to me looks the best, but I cannot take that to the range or play it on course. And there is no program yet for both worlds except Garmin and Rapsodo.