They’re both doing the same thing. And Garmin probably impacts users negatively (financially) more
Garmin watch prices have gone through the roof Garmin doubled the price of their marine chart plotter app for me (Formally Navionics,), so I switched to a competitor.
Garmin added connect+ to their fitness platform so after spending $1000 for a watch you can pay an additional subscription to get the rest of their services
Strava put half their stuff behind a paywall a half dozen years ago causing me to stop sending them my data for free and deleting my account Now they’re trying to bite the hand that actually feeds them data by going after Garmin. Pretty sure Garmin users would be 90+% of the data coming into Strava.
Garmin just has to sever syncing to Strava and it would all but shut them down.
It’s greed, to keep growing yearly getting fatter and fatter at the consumers expense.
I’ve been using Garmin watches (runner) since like 2013 and had Navionics since sometime around the same time. I only know how to protest these companies with my wallet or data since they won’t listen otherwise. Not sure if I’ll buy another Garmin watch when this one is due for replacement. Depends on how much stuff is behind “connect+”
I voted against Garmin with my wallet. I was nervous to leave the Garmin ecosystem but when I decided what data I actually need, it’s all there on Corus and Suunto. I’m happy not to be in the Garmin upgrade loop and Connect plus world.
Ya I’ve got a Fenix 8 amoled. But as I said it might be my last. I’ve looked at Corus and Suunto and both offer decent watches. Garmin makes great hardware, the company is just falling into the more more more penny pinching phase of their existence which annoys the hell out of me.
“Strava is claiming that “Strava has suffered damages, including lost revenue and business opportunities, erosion of competitive differentiation and network effects, harm to goodwill, and unjust gains to Garmin.””
No, Strava, you did that to yourself with your personal enshittification. I already deleted my accounts and stopped using strava so I can’t really protest this kind of bullshit in that way. Although to be fair garmin is going that way for me as well with their recent moves towards the same enshittification.
I am in the Garmin ecosystem too with my Fenix 5x. I love that watch and looked and looked and then bought a Fenix7x. While it has more feathers then the 5x I don’t feel like it is much of an upgrade. Thankfully I got it used and paid less than half of what a new one cost. I let it sync it Strava but truthfully it makes no difference to me. Since they are in a feud I might just delete the Strava app. It really give no value to me.
Mine is a very similar story. All around, in terms of strava I used to just leave it syncing to my account and not think about or use it most of the time. Then as they removed even more features to be behind their paywall I made a point to delete the account in sort of protest.
I am only one person but similar to a lot of things I boycott in this way, hopefully people will follow in time and really affect them! Join us! XD
Has anyone tried any open sourced alternatives to Strava? I haven’t yet but seems there’s a few, checking through alternativeto.net. The only reason I still use Strava is because friends do, but I’m considering getting rid.
Their platform is unenjoyable with the amount of advertising for premium. Every decision they make recently is lowering my opinion of them.
I’ve been watching this from the sidelines
https://github.com/joaovitoriasilva
Not FOSS, but i’ve been using intervals.icu as a replacement for all the non-social media functions of strava. Like all the important fitness tracking metrics
It pisses me off that i’ve given strava so many years of data and their analytics are still total trash
What sort of functionality are you looking for? I’ve tried Wanderer, which integrates with Strava and Komoot.
Just the social aspect really. Which makes it difficult cos even if an alternative is spot on, it won’t work unless everyone floods to it.
Patents should be abolished
Fucking patent trolls need to fuck off.
What a D move
