Fenix 7 Base vs 955, are you kidding me?

That is overly simplified and excludes the most important point in the argument - more expensive product should not have less features than cheaper prodict issued in the same cycle/generation. No one does it. For a good reason. End of story. Period.

Vizi said:

more expensive product should not have less features than cheaper prodict

My 'more expensive' product doesn't because I didn't buy the budget model.

Vizi said:

End of story. Period.

Fenix 7 standard is totally opposite of the budget model. 

Frankysour said:

If someone feels cheated after buying a premium device there has been a mistake in strategy

No.  It means nothing more than someone feels cheated.  Says so doesn't legitimize anything. 

Vizi said:

That is overly simplified

That's because it's really that simple. 

Vizi said:

the most important point in the argument - more expensive product should not have less features than cheaper prodict issued in the same cycle/generation.

Show me this rule or law anywhere. 

Vizi said:

No one does it.

Sure they do.  My neighbor bought a basic Jeep Grand Cherokee. Two months later my wife bought the regular Jeep Cherokee with more bells and whistles, at the same dealer for a cheaper price. 

Fenix 7 standard IS the budget model in the Fenix product line. It is the cheapest one with the least amount of features and polish.

Vizi said:

You are really asking for some law that more expensive product should be better than cheaper one?  That says it all, there is no need for me to add anyrhing else

Actually I said rule or law which we both know doesn't exist even though you and others use it in their argument.  Your argument is based on nothing but emotion. But I get it.  I said I'd be a little disappointed if it happened to me, but I know things like that happen and I wouldn't take it to such extremes as accusing a corporation of cheating me. 

Ok we agree to disagree, to me... If a company manages to dissatisfy customers of what they present as premium products then they screwed something in their strategy, and this very long thread demonstrates they did in this case. You can of course have a different view

Frankysour said:

If a company manages to dissatisfy customers of what they present as premium products then they screwed something in their strategy

I challenge you to find one product ever made where there wasn't dissatisfied customers.

Frankysour said:

and this very long thread demonstrates they did in this case.

As I said earlier, just because someone complains about something, thats doesn't automatically mean there was a flaw in that company's strategy.  Especially when their argument is based on what they believe should or shouldn't have happened.  No laws were broken, legal or moral.  These are emotional arguments. You and I disagree.  And there's nothing wrong with that.  But you've said these post prove Garmin was flawed in their marketing strategy.  It doesn't prove anything. It been suggested by me and others it may be due to the pandemic and an increase in prices because of the lack of parts and labor.  If indeed this was the case, then that's not a flaw in marketing strategy.  It's economics. 

Frankysour said:

and this very long thread demonstrates they did in this case.

This thread is longer than it should be because of repeat posters and it still represents a extremely small number compared to units sold.  It seems to me there are just as many who agree with me as there are with you.  Does this demonstrate that it isn't the case?