Fenix 7 Base vs 955, are you kidding me?

Exactly. Base Fenix 7 is my first Garmin watch. I bought it this week. I would not trade it for the Forerunner as I don't like the design that much (especially those bezels). Fenix in silver looks more elegant to me. But as other people mentioned here, it just feels unfair that a much cheaper device has the multi-band support and a bigger storage.

Sone ppl already compared this situation with a phone market lifecycle and market expectations. I think this is a great one to summarize my feelings about this. But I will go ahead and picture you a more graphic description. Lets say Apple releases iPhone XS Max (F7XSS), XS (F7SS) and XR (F7Base), SE (FR 955). These are phone from the same generation (or for the sake of this conversation pretend that they are and have the same cpu). On what earth you think the market would react well if the IPhone SE had features higher than XR?

PS. And the topics question should read F7 base vs fr255 to put even more emphasize on the lack of multi band on the former. 

PS2.

You keep  mentioning the F6base as a excuse for garmins strip of the F7. Reminders me again what was a price difference between F6Pro and pro SSTitanium? The same as now. Except then the difference was only in the materials and not the hardware features. So why exactly Garmin decided to deepen the gap? 

May be added secretly under the same name.

You're literally blaming Garmin for your poor buying decision and with those arguments, actually a FR255 would have been enough for you. When you've bought the F7, you had the choice of buying the 32gb/multiband version but you preferred buying the entry level model. Also you could have waited a few more months as there were rumors that the next gen of Forerunners will be released.

If you are talking to me... Absolutely yes, even a forerunner 55 would do for me, I buy the fenixes since I like them. That's it.

And luckily no bad decisions (well... Not this time at least ) since I did not buy any Fenix 7 because I thought it was overpriced, and Garmin proved me right with the launch of the fr955.

That's how you loose a customer that put more money than he needed to part with for a (still very much loved) Fenix 6x pro solar, that is my current watch and will remain so up to the moment I find a correctly priced Fenix 7

As I see it, the fenix line is not a premium forerunner. The premium forerunner is in fact the marq athleet, and the premium fenix the adventurer. They can not be compared, because they don't target the same markets. The fenix is a vastly more expensive watch, but that is for the quality of the case materials. Do people pay 500 extra for a larger watch with titanium and sapphire (and solar, light, ....)? Yes they apparently do. And if you bought that watch for the multi-band alone and actualy don't like the build materals, then you made a wrong desission and should"ve waited out a year. And I agree, Garmin mest up the "old" lineup with going all out on the sapphire models, and not building a pro-like watch.

Nope Frankysour the answer was meant for the person who started the thread :-). Whatever device you'll buy, soon afterwards there will be a new/cheaper/whatever model - regardless if it's cars, computer, watches or flying pigs. 

Nope Frankysour the answer was meant for the person who started the thread :-). Whatever device you'll buy, soon afterwards there will be a new/cheaper/whatever model - regardless if it's cars, computers, watches or flying pigs. 

When watching DC Rainmaker's 955 menu deep dive, I noticed that the 955's widgets look real dated and (at times) even ugly compared to the F7 / Epix 2 line. The solar intensity or body battery widget, for example, look like F6 leftovers with even less data. Not a huge deal, but something to keep in mind.

If I were wrong, we wouldn't be having this conversation now would we?

If you were right, we wouldn't be having this conversation. If non sapphire Fenix/Epix were cheap products and Forerunner 255/955 were the expensive premium/flagship stuff, you would be right.