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Venu 3 abandonware?

hanuman

Most of the new features of the Venu 4 are on the software-side, thus could be easily impemented on the Venu 3. But ofc, Garmin has no interest in doing so, they want to push the Venu 4 to the market and do not intent to cannibalise their own model.

However, as a customer and buyer of a Venu 3 (last February for 380€, mind you) I feel bad. I feel like Garmin cuts me intentionally out of the loop of new valuable health features, rendering my 10 month old smart-watch useless for future updates. I love the hardware, but this sucks, I am not amused. Garmin naturally doesn't care, but I am looking for a new brand, this is uncceptable and most likely my last Garmin.

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    IDK.  I bought mine back in July of last year. It still has all the features I paid for back then and has gotten a few more to boot. I didn't buy it with the expectation of a boatload of new capabilities being added after the fact.  I've used Garmin Edge units since 2010.  It's the same story.  They make updates, add some features, and then it's on to the next generation which includes new capabilities and features that don't get added to the previous units.  I think all brands in this space do pretty much the same thing.  

    It might be said something is just software, but software isn't free. It costs time and money to develop, test, roll out, and support, so has to be paid for somehow.