Just to throw a few thoughts into this discussion.
Firstly, there may well be a long list of internal technical changes that have gone into this update that are simply not ‘features’ so are not listed in the public notes. This is really common with releases because sometimes feature A needs internal changes B, C and D first and it’s often a good idea to release these and confirm they are stable before then releasing feature A.
Secondly, there were 2 massive updates in the FW release - improved HR and fixes for excess power consumption - which may have only impacted some models but which likely took a lot of developer resource and beta testing and which were also likely considered a priority to release. It would be really common for popular but less critical improvements or features to be bumped down the todo list as a result of such items but it doesn’t mean the team don’t want to work on them 🙂
Thirdly, this release was clearly a massive deal for Ocean owners who are now almost on a level with everyone else. I’m sure a lot of dev, qa and beta testing resource was consumed making this happen,
In the 18 months I’ve been a Suunto watch user I may not have seen the features I want most but I have seen giant leaps of improvements across the board, often in areas I didn’t know I wanted until I got them - such as improved pause screen, ZoneSense and per-activity-profile display controls 🙂 I absolutely love being able to set the display to ‘off’ for bodypump so my wrist doesn’t keep lighting up like an xmas tree with every Upright Row 🙂
