Ambit 3 Peak : Keep Movescount or change for SUUNTO app ?
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@pavel-samokha A cynic would say: because they were still selling A3s, intent on ending MC and realised they might well be liable to lawsuits if they withdrew an obviously massive swath of that watch’s functionality within the most recent purchasers’ guarantee period (still selling in Spain a couple of days ago + >=2 years).
The BT-less syncing necessary for A3s will work for A1s & A2s anyway, so why exclude them when it can be presented that you’re making a generous gesture to veteran owners? If push comes to shove regarding the other A3 losses, hopefully a judge would think that the A1/A2 treatment was evidence of extra indulgence, rather than built-in by the more crucial A3 provision. Almost zero cost to Suunto (portion of SA/ST account db maintenance vs continued user data acquisition), maybe gain.
It can be seen to match Suunto’s public-gesture-qualified-by-hard-nosed-commercialism that characterises the Digital Transition … Experience. See also: suspension of loyalty offer over Black Friday sale period.
But that’s a cynic for you. Terrible people.
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Nothing to add to what @Fenr1r said.
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@Fenr1r BT workouts syncing to Suunto App is available for Ambit 3.
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@pavel-samokha Yup. But you asked about the other bits as well. BT workout sync alone is impressive but not the massive judicial-attention-grabbing bit to which a cynic might have referred.
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@Fenr1r I’m a bit confused, may be your logic is too complex for me. So Suunto’s plan is according to you: implement workouts BT sync but not settings BT sync to force customers buy a new watch but be sure no lawsuits? Occam’s razor tells me it’s wrong explanation.
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@pavel-samokha Occam’s razor can go back in his pocket. Assuming he had pockets. The logic doesn’t extend beyond why “Suunto added support for Ambits 1/2/3 to Suunto App and SuuntoLink?”. The cynic wasn’t suggesting anything about forcing anyone to buy a new watch. (As far as I can tell: that miserable bastard.)
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To give them something, so the watch remains barely “connected”, but just enough to annoy tippical user and hope he will give up and buy better watch. Completely removing Bluetooth connectivity would most definitely make most of users go to the competition right away. Keeping basic bt connectivity, kept them just a little bit longer with suunto. Hopefully until they would decide to buy new watch anyway. And hopefully, decide to stay with suunto.
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@Fenr1r @Prenj Sorry guys, I don’t see reasoning in your words. I don’t understand how you justify that doing something “barely” makes someone to buy your new product instead of going for a competition. And that company may intentionally try to cripple product and think that the customer just buy a new one because of that. Do you really think it works like that and that’s the reason?
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Yes. See Apple with slowing down Iphones…
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@pavel-samokha sad part is thought they are selling the ambits still and yet are crippling the watches!!! Just fact…Moving to a platform with barely any functions instead of implementing them properly, wheres the logic? they ARE crippling the Ambits and it is intentional…
Ambit 3 Peak with HRM, Movescount on Samsung S6 Active,Android 7.1.2…Suunto app installed for test only…
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@Prenj said in Ambit 3 Peak : Keep Movescount or change for SUUNTO app ?:
Yes. See Apple with slowing down Iphones…
look how long it took them to admit too it… hmmmmmmm wonder if suunto are following their lead???
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@lohtse crippling for what? To kill golden
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@Prenj said in Ambit 3 Peak : Keep Movescount or change for SUUNTO app ?:
Apple with slowing down Iphones…
Apple slowing down iPhone models they are still selling
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@pavel-samokha we are loosing functionality.the app is barely suitable and has limited functions… If the app did everything the old app did(change settings etc) and did as the movescount web page does then I would be very happy…yet it does not… instead we have to faf about sync here there and every where when on a pc just to see what we used to see in movescount(don’t for get we will not be able to sync with movescount soon) instead of being a simply process we have to share data with so many things and then half the time(based on comments on the forum) the data is not present or messed up… A simple process ruined for what???
Ambit 3 Peak with HRM, Movescount on Samsung S6 Active,Android 7.1.2…Suunto app installed for test only…
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@pavel-samokha said in Ambit 3 Peak : Keep Movescount or change for SUUNTO app ?:
@Prenj said in Ambit 3 Peak : Keep Movescount or change for SUUNTO app ?:
Apple with slowing down Iphones…
Apple slowing down iPhone models they are still selling
?at the time it came to light yes they was still selling the phones they had been slowing down… the iphone 5
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@pavel-samokha so what if they are selling them? They reduced the price accordingly. It’s the users who bought these watches already, mostly few years ago, that should be gently forced to buy newer watches. These watches refuse to stop working by themselves, so there is a need for a little push from software side.
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@Prenj said in Ambit 3 Peak : Keep Movescount or change for SUUNTO app ?:
@pavel-samokha so what if they are selling them? They reduced the price accordingly. It’s the users who bought these watches already, mostly few years ago, that should be gently forced to buy newer watches. These watches refuse to stop working by themselves, so there is a need for a little push from software side.
Why??? if it is not broken an still functions fully then why? we waste far too much these days…
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@lohtse yes! And did you notice how they suggest users to pass their watches to someone else LOL
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@pavel-samokha Again: I’m not going beyond a possible reason why A1/2/3 support exists in SA/SuuntoLink. That’s where @Prenj & I diverge. Not a plan to generate new watch sales (any more than usual).
Entirely hypothetical cognitive dissonance in Vantaa scenario: Dr Jekyll wants to shift everything to App/Spartan/Sx. Mr Hyde wants to keep that A3 revenue stream, unaware of the full technical requirements for A3 functionality. Both go ahead until MC deprecation looms. [Actual] Initial plan announced to fully/simply cease MC. Jonathan Harker points out A3 sales mean 2 more years (at least) of spec’d functionality provision required post final A3 sale.
[Actual] MC public deprecation text revised: Son of MC to continue as settings, “route management” tool via cable. Dr Jekyll borrows some of MCApp’s code to get SA to import workouts from A3 via BT but that’s as far as it goes. [Actual @margusl or @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos probably know how batshit this idea is but maybe *.jsons/FITs are more easily copied across watch generations]. The greater level of interaction required for setting changes is beyond the S/Sx-geared SA. A bit like you can copy & delete images from an iPhone in Windows but can’t mess around with much else.
Dr Jekyll decides that since Son of MC isn’t going anywhere, maybe “management” [Actually] gets changed to “creation”.
POIs status remains unknown in the forest somewhere.
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@lohtse as I said previously, I encourage you to try using new app first. That’s better than make conclusions “based on comments on the forum” (BTW which comments show the date is messed up or not present half the time?)
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