mongooseman wrote:
I do have it - yeah, it’s very stable. Athlytics also provides all the recovery metrics you’d ever need. I hear you on the Garmin challengers, but this is a little bit different. When Apple comes into your space, you’re going to have to either dramatically up your game in terms of reliability, quality of user experience and presentation and everything else, or you’re going to get steamrolled year by year. The Ultra as it stands right now is v1. By v3 I’m willing to bet this market is going to look very, very different.
yes, and in my experience reliabilty and quality of user experience are where garmin fall short. i'm on my second 955 now, after the first was replaced due to multiple issues which seem to be well known in the community but garmin support were seemingly unaware of, let alone able to help with other than the eventual "oh well, lets just try replacing it" approach. so after a month of them doing nothing, i then had to pay to ship it back to them and wait 12 days to get a replacement, which was then starting from scratch, reconfiguring everything and now waiting 3 weeks for it to learn my physiological metrics, all of which it should have picked up from the previous one. and guess what, i immediately found that at least one of the significant bugs is present in the new watch too.
i'm not an apple fan at all but i can't imagine they would accept that this sort of experience is typical with garmin devices. i have had a lot of garmin devices and every one of them has had issues that garmin have ben unable to resolve, except sometimes they are willing to replace which sometimes solves the issue
i have to say, the feature set of the 955 is top notch and i don't think anyone else is close, yet. just as usual garmin's lack of reliabilty lets them down which leaves them in danger as and when someone else gets anywhere close on features.