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Do we get the new SW updates from 945?

RunningM
over 6 years ago
Can someone from Garmin elaborate on this? I really want the new training load feature.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago in reply to renton82

    Lets be honest though, it's the Marq Athlete that's been undercut far worse than the F5x+

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    0 Former Member over 6 years ago in reply to renton82

    And at that price undercut, even I'd be a little ... fractious :) 

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to Odie21

    It's difficult to add features to car because they (a) depend upon hardware and (b) are tightly certified.

    Neither of these restrictions occurs in this case.

    A better comparison might be to my Macbook. I bought it 5 years ago and Apple have added numerous features to it, at zero cost to me.

    Similarly my Galaxy Note 8 phone has been upgraded to the latest version of Android OS (I've had two full OS updates and numerous minor enhancements since I owned it) which gives it software parity with the later Note 9.

    Garmin are producing fixes and adding new features, but on a watch costing £799 they need to be making more of a commitment. Software updates (including new features that are not hardware depended) for at least 12 months, ideally 24 months.

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to milesgilmour

    That’s backwards thinking, again “expecting” something in return for spending a higher dollar amount when there is NO  guarantee when you buy it that there will be updates. 

    If you paid $50 for a watch, would you expect that to be updated with “new” features? When you buy these watches, you buy it for the CURRENT set of features and with the hope that any software related issues will be resolved. You don’t buy it with “Hey, I’m going to buy this watch because I want the new features of a watch that comes out a year from now”. Again, that’s entitled thinking because you spent a certain $ amount.

    When you buy an iPhone, Apple states they will continue to update your phone with features for at least five years. Google says when you buy a Pixel, it will continue to update your phone for 2 to 3 years after you buy it. That’s part of “their” pitch to get you to buy it. Please....show me where Garmin has said that for any of the Fenix products. If so, then I will admit that I was wrong, otherwise, enjoy your watch and if it’s within your budget to buy a new watch with new features, then do it.

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to Odie21

    It's a piece of expensive consumer electronics, the expectation comes with the territory. 

    A $250 watch is "disposable" and the expectations are lower. Garmin have sold $1000+ versions of the F5+ and they will fail to meet consumer expectations. 

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to milesgilmour

    That’s YOUR expectation, mine is to get what I buy. All the features that they said the 5+ had, I got...that’s the ONLY expectation that a consumer should have, other than to resolve any software related issues.

    Drop the “entitled” attitude and you’ll see things in your life vastly improve...

    ...Dr. Phil, over and out!

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to Odie21

    The fact you are posting on a thread where numerous other people are complaining about the issue suggests it might not be YOUR expectation but it is OTHER PEOPLE'S expectation.

    As for the "entitled attitude" have you ever heard that "the customer is always right"?

    Right now Garmin have a monopoly on the high end activity watch market, so they don't need customer goodwill. But in the world of consumer technology, things can change very quickly.

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to milesgilmour

    You do realize that you just proved my point of you being “entitled” right? Do you actually believe that crap you just spewed out that the “customer is always right”? Everyone else posting the same crap your posting about “I should get these new improvements too!” is just as wrong as you are.  

    You want the new software, buy the watch that has it, as opposed to “expecting” and quite frankly “demanding” that it should be given to you because you spent money with Garmin. You have absolutely no concept of how a business runs.

    I’m done wasting any more time talking to entitled clowns like yourself.  You sit there on your phone or computer and post how society owes you something, let’s see how far that gets you in life...Wink

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to Former Member

    For posting pictures of a device that shows features that the device actually doesn't have.