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Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/running@lemmy.world

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[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Many years ago i was thinking that garmin should use its vast trove of training data, hire some data scientists and use machine learning to improve the workout suggestions (they are complete trash). This was way before all the LLM nonsense.

In 2025, i'm much more wary of what "AI" features are going to look like. Been a garmin customer for 15 years (cycling and running gear)

Will be making plans to switch if this AI stuff turns out to be nonsense like the AI in strava

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

Personally I think it's likely that this is that pre-LLM sort of data analytics, and they're just capitalising on the AI hype that LLMs created for marketing purposes.

I'm far more enraged by Garmin's embracing of subscription pricing, when they have always, in the past, gone for the Apple model where you pay for premium hardware, and get great support for those products. I've criticised this at times because there's been a tendency to only provide about one year of feature updates, two if you're lucky. But at least it was one price and you're done.