Petition to have all Suunto Race features on the Vertical! It's up to you!
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@André-Faria I feel you and also am a bit bummed about it. But I kinda think that this could be fixed with more transparency.
I.e. if one releases new devices that partially use old HW, it kinda is to be expected that one either does an artificial cut of updates for older watches s.t. every watch released gets ± the same number of updates or one keeps supporting HW as long as possible and then the very first watches that are introduced with a specific HW iteration would be supported much longer then the last watch with such HW.
Now, I think the latter option would be more preferable for me and also more admirable in my opinion. However, saying ‘this watch is promised support for X years and after that is unclear’ would make it easier for the user to adjust expectations. Plus, it’s better to overdeliver.But also it would seem that some of the features like lactate threshold could be computed after the fact in the app, and thus such features could be brought to basically all SA-ready watches without needing to implement these on per-watch basis (maybe just for the recent ones).
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@DMytro as always with product management it is more complicated in reality.
Older devices differ in hardware, that means some new features would not be just copy&paste of code but a rewrite of those functions for older hardware. It requires a lot of different firmware rewriting and supporting separately.
It is a complex descision where to invest your resources.
At the same time, even if new features could be added to older models, it would possibly slow them down. Some users like features, some like a reactive UI. In this case I would understand the rant if your watch became slower to operate.All this apart from the bare technical restrictions of flash memory.
The Race FW package for example is around 7MB currently while S9PP is around 4MB.
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@Frederick-Rochette Detailed sleep analysis, nap detection
