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Garmin’s Biggest Competitor Is Their Own Software Instability - DC Rainmaker

Levon over 6 years ago

Interesting read:

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/06/competitor-software-instability.html

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gguerini over 6 years ago +6

Well, the first stop to fix a problem, is to recognize you have a problem. It's pretty well known now that Garmin has a software (AND HARDWARE) problem. See Ray's article and all the comments. Some may…
hansap over 6 years ago in reply to Dr Phil +5

It is very troubling from a modern software development point of view that Garmin regularly introduces new errors in functions that used to work correctly, when new fixes or features are being introduced…
djwalker1260 over 6 years ago in reply to chong67 +5

I am firmly in Ray's camp. My belief is that Garmin tries to add too many features and ends up with things that are broken and some that basically never work. Examples:

1) Livetrack, Grouptrack- Virtually…

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0 bc0123 over 6 years ago

+1...

I thought about my commute in this morning. I added the power zone data field to my edge and it got stuck on Zone "10."

0 jmto over 6 years ago

Without owning 945 I would be like what is he talking about. But this 945 has been the worst Garmin new watch experience. I've had 405CX, 310XT, 920XT, 935 and now this 945.

This sounds like 945 got released year to early, it broke the very regular every 3 year cycle with a product that today failed the HRM part.

Now I have a new watch that has worse GPS than the previous 935 and it doesn't even do HR reliable. The two thing that you would expect from a GPS HR watch.