Agreed. It wasn't meant to be any kind of explanation to excuse them.jlok wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:25 amYes, so it's Garmin's fault.
And you're probably talking about a few generations earlier like 810 or 510... that "improved" simply doesn't justify the flagship status of the 1040 and we the earliest adoptors aka pay-to-be-beta-testers won't accept such "explanation".
However the reality with Garmin is that their software really sucks and you're pretty much always their beta tester. Only near the end-of-life of their product they reach more or less usable state, however at that point they abandon that device as they already released their new toy which means a new beta testing cycle with it.
I've got older Edge 820 with purposedly older software (and with software updates blocked) because even though they fixed some annoying bugs in the later versions and even added few features, they also screwed up the battery life big time. That's just how things are with them.
As I have one pretty old outdoor handheld Garmin device, I remember pretty well how it was with their software many (15+) years ago.
In short: Nothing has improved during all these years.
Right now I'm waiting if any interesting new product form some of their competitors pops up. There were rumors about something from Hammerhead coming in the near future so I'll see.