Dive to 40m

Yeah, like it’s impossible for an AOW diver to get deco time at 25m … or like deco is forbidden when diving and impossible to get unless you’re technical diver. Not sure how people come up with such assumptions?!

I never said it is impossible. 
Just under 30 chance for it is much higher. 
And of course it not depends only from depth. 

These are supposed to be official images from a german site and i found this one for fenix 8

Just fyi: It also says on the bottom back of the watch:

WR - 100 M ... Serialnumber ... DIVE - 40 M

I suspect the Fenix 8 will have Dive to 40m capability which will allow it to compete with the Apple Watch Ultra.

It probably wont have the inductive buttons the Mk3 has, hence only 40m Dive, not 200m.

It wont have Air Integration, that will be a sole feature for the Descents, since Garmin are good at feature separation for niche purposes.

However, I'm guessing the Fenix 9 or 10 will have a variant with AI, making future Descents no longer needed.

Merging the products is probably a good thing as they have too many models making it confusing for new consumers considering a Garmin.

But for at at least a couple of years, the Mk3 is the choice for beyond 40m and AI.

Yeah and it will probably be open air circuit only, no CCR,trimix etc. So kinda Descent-light. Which is pretty cool for number of customers That dive ocassinally on vacation and would never buy descent anyways. 

If it has nitrox, I think I would have been just happy with it being 40m air+nitrox one. Without nitrox no-go.

So would never buy descent anyways? Is weird concept. Wanted to have my dives in Garmin ecosystem and would have wanted dive only computer with big screen. Garmin didn't have them, so did go with 51mm Descent. 

Would I have known that there's going to be Fenix 8 in autumn which has all my diving needs without AI, would have been pretty hard to go with Descent with AI.

I Think it will havé same capabilities as Apple Watch Ultra. Just to equalize in comparison. But if it can calculate air in can also calculate nitrox… no special hardware needed. 

Well, there's a lot of different features in Garmin software based on the watch that doesn't require specific hardware. Yes, if it can do Air it can do Nitrox, and it can also do multiple gases and etc on software side, but will it was the question.

I have no idea what Apple can do, so referring to that, tells me nothing.