Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS)

@olymay I hope that some improvements reach to the S7, not to the successor

olymay

@flypg said in Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS):

@olymay I hope that some improvements reach to the S7, not to the successor

There have been no updates to the S7 since April (7 months ago!!), so I have accepted that it is essentially dead to Suunto now, it won’t receive any further updates or improvements

@olymay I not lose hope

olymay

@flypg said in Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS):

@olymay I not lose hope

I’m a very optimistic person by nature, but 7 months without an update says to me it’s dead

I hope I am wrong, but I don’t see why Suunto would continue support for the S7, as Google have also dropped all support to WearOS 2 devices.

Either Suunto are working on a version 2 (please, please, please) or they are giving up on WearOS completely (this would be a sad thing).

Cristian 0

I love my fancy suunto 7… but I have assumed we won’t have any other impressive surprise… probably just a minor security update, hence I have bought a garmin forerunner 945 and I must love it… just missing the smart features… but It is the kind of watch that everybody need: Music, garmin pay, intervals , Maps , waypoints, and more & more… probably I should buy a samsung watch 4 as non sport watch due Wear OS 3 wont be supported for a real sportwatch in a long time.

isazi

@cristian-0 sorry but why that should be the watch that everybody needs?

@olymay said in Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS):

I hope I am wrong

I hope so

Aleksander H

@isazi I’m guessing he meant has everything one needs. Unless he’s a secret marketing spy from Garmin trying to convert us.

Either way, my S7 still does everything it did before, and does it well. So I’ll keep using it til the battery or something else goes bad. Hopefully a similar WearOS watch will be around by then.

Cristian 0

@aleksander-h most of people love offline music in their watches… But Polar and Suunto for any reason that I don’t know, they don’t have any sportwatch with music and both have used wear os to get it… Polar m600 and suunto 7… The polar m600 was/is a good watch but polar canceled the wear os project … Will Suunto do the same? After doing a nice job? I am not sure, but anybody tell us the opposite thing.

Aleksander H

@cristian-0 said in Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS):

@aleksander-h most of people love offline music in their watches… But Polar and Suunto for any reason that I don’t know, they don’t have any sportwatch with music and both have used wear os to get it… Polar m600 and suunto 7… The polar m600 was/is a good watch but polar canceled the wear os project … Will Suunto do the same? After doing a nice job? I am not sure, but anybody tell us the opposite thing.

I think getting offline music is harder than one thinks. Fitbit never managed to get anyone other than pandora on board if I remember correctly. If Fitbit can’t do it, I fail to see how Polar and Suunto would manage (without the use of a platform like Wear).

Cristian 0

@aleksander-h for sure! but if Garmin is integrating offline music and NFC payments for years, at least we know It is possible and should be easier now than before. And they have been implementing those features on the vivoactive 3 music and garmin fenix 5 plus since early 2018.

Jamie BG

@aleksander-h
Getting music on the watch may not as be hard as your think.

Coros has offline music, Fitbit sense has offline music - it shouldn’t be hard to add harddrive and and an app to play your own music content. So that should be pretty easily available to all watches.
Streaming subscription services - big issue here is what deals have been made. In the past Spotify was in a locked contract with Garmin and Samsung (which is why not even Apple Watch had spotify) - however since the Google Samsung deal with wear os the contract lock with Spotify has changed, as all wear os watches and even Apple Watch now has it. This suggests that all manufacturers should be able to get a Spotify app now - that lock that Samsung had on it has gone. So manufacturers need to step up their game.
What about other streaming services - Apple locks theirs, but what about Pandora & Deezer (both are on fitbit, and deezer is also on Garmin); and then there is also Amazon music (which is loads better than it used to be - would say as good as Spotify now in regards to their content - and this is on Garmin); and then you have YTM now, which I suspect Google would be happy for everyone to use…

To me if you don’t have at least own music, you aren’t trying, as the at is the min, if you can’t get a subscription service.