Garmin are such a crock of shit when it comes to software aren’t they. I’ve had an Edge 705 for a few years now, it’s great on the bike. Well apart from that time it corrupted and reset itself and lost all my routes.
But the PC connection has been an endless fight, if I plug it in with any cable other than the one it comes with it’ll appear on the computer, but refuse to sync. The plugin must of been reinstalled a hundred times over the years to keep it working. And now it doesn’t work on Chrome, even though it has moderately happily worked for the last, what, 4 years?
I installed the Express stuff and it works, but it hasn’t bothered to install an icon for itself, so I’d have no idea which button to press to open it if it wasn’t for the fact that every single other software company manages to install an icon. No doubt they’ll come up with something else I need to use in 12 months time, hopefully that’ll come with an icon.
All that time and money spent trying to compete with Strava by adding crap to the Garmin Connect website, now it’s a complete mess. But without the plugin I have to bounce everything into connect so that it then syncs to Strava.
Can’t believe no one has taken them on with the hardware side of things, with the mess they’ve made of their software, they’re ripe for the picking by someone that can do things better.