Only one month ago, Garmin decided to declare ANT Agent obsolete and forced me (and many other runners) to switch to their new SuperDuper Garmin Express.
The very first issue came when I was uploading my activity on Strava: not possible anymore. A small search on Google told me that indeed there was no viable way for Strava to communicate to Garmin devices. One workaround was to export the activity from Garmin Connect and import it manually in Strava. Time consuming and really annoying.
The worst occurred when the first activity got lost before upload. That was not happening since about two years.
Yesterday the most dramatic one: three activities I completed in Finland, on hilly tracks and one personal record on the distance of 15 km around the lake Jyvasjarvi in 59' got lost too.
I was furious and disappointed at the same time.
Garmin Express is not mature enough to go out as production software. You should know this, Garmin engineers!!
What annoys me the most is that we, poor users, can only suffer Garmin's mistakes. Therefore I suggest that Garmin engineers (or the project managers responsible for such a failure) should pay the price of their own mistakes by running the miles that have been destroyed. At the same pace.
Not possible?
Fine. Pay us back, Mr Garmin!
The very first issue came when I was uploading my activity on Strava: not possible anymore. A small search on Google told me that indeed there was no viable way for Strava to communicate to Garmin devices. One workaround was to export the activity from Garmin Connect and import it manually in Strava. Time consuming and really annoying.
The worst occurred when the first activity got lost before upload. That was not happening since about two years.
Yesterday the most dramatic one: three activities I completed in Finland, on hilly tracks and one personal record on the distance of 15 km around the lake Jyvasjarvi in 59' got lost too.
I was furious and disappointed at the same time.
Garmin Express is not mature enough to go out as production software. You should know this, Garmin engineers!!
What annoys me the most is that we, poor users, can only suffer Garmin's mistakes. Therefore I suggest that Garmin engineers (or the project managers responsible for such a failure) should pay the price of their own mistakes by running the miles that have been destroyed. At the same pace.
Not possible?
Fine. Pay us back, Mr Garmin!
