Originally Posted by
bahula03
...the product development (especially software) seems somewhere between apathetic and cynical. Talking with a friend about this the other day, just makes me wonder how a company is run, what the culture is like, when it produces products like Garmin does.
I suspect much of the issues is due to legacy architecture and software. I don't think the software is easy to change.
They probably need to rewrite it but that might be too expensive.
The Karoo was terrible for quite a while.
The recent Wahoo units might not have the same amount of problems but they are also simpler (the have functionality similar to the 520). It not like they are without problems either.
Both Hammerhead and Wahoo started out with products that were kind of duds.
The Karoo might illustrate how long re-engineering the Edge would take (about 4 years). And it's not clear that the Karoo is a success or how well Hammerhead is doing.
Wahoo has a fairly long history. They've been in the cycling computer business for a while but it's only the recent models that were successful (ones that people really like).