Badly formatted Stopwatch time (off screen)

Noticed another minor UI issue today.

I paused my stopwatch around 21 min 30 sec, upon resuming the display shows fractions of a second for awhile (until the 10s or the minute rolls over?).

During this time the displayed time is off the screen on both sides due to the font size and amount of characters being too much to show.

0 FlowState over 2 years ago

Yep I noticed that a while ago but didn't even bother to mention it. I assume garmin doesn't care if you want to use the stopwatch for longer than 9:59 or 11:59 or whatever.

Just like...

- the other stopwatch bug where the timer and laps disappear if you have more than 4 laps, select OPTIONS > Go to Watchface, then go back to the stopwatch

- the bug with the Strength activity where the weight you enter between sets isn't saved (unless you select Edit Set and enter it that way)

- the lack of Pan/Zoom functionality on the map page (while not following a course), while the watch is paused (the workaround is to dive deep into the settings menu to look at the map a different way, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the map as a data page)

...it speaks to:

- lack of attention to detail

- lack of testing

- a corporate culture which fosters both of the above (I'm sure all the individual employees care a lot, but the company as a whole or the leadership doesn't)

- our willingness to let this kind of thing slide for years as Garmin customers (we keep buying their products and this kind of stuff keeps happening, right?)

Obviously since we're the ones who are finding this stuff (it's not caught before the firmware is released to the end user), we're just acting as unpaid testers. Even worse, we pay Garmin.

Then there's the stuff they do on purpose, like adding another menu to the Strength activity before you can get to the pause menu, which means you have to press START twice to pause the strength activity (unlike every other kind of activity afaik).

And who can blame them? Making the software relatively bug-free (and improving its usability) won't help them one bit as they try to stay alive in a niche that's probably shrinking due to the popularity of Apple Watches.

Garmins are a lot nicer than they used to be, but Garmin is still bad at software.

EDIT: To be fair my own stopwatch app has a bug where it formats the time incorrectly if you let it run for longer than 23 days, but then again my app is free and I made it for fun.