Switched from apple to garmin to coros, not looking back. Coros blows everyone out of the water from a user experience standpoint, and they offer excellent value.
Value for money, simple software not bloated compared to garmin, heart rate is on par with apple watch. They update their old devices with new features I think one of their models just got a software update for global mapping where you would need to pay extra to get a model with that feature from the competition. Devices could be better in terms of design and fit and finish in time they will get there I hope but overall they are doing pretty good stuff.
It’s a more focused sports experience. I genuinely didn’t use the messaging or reminder or calendar features when I had an Apple Watch, so they are just bloat.
In my spare time, I’ve been working on a portfolio of cycling related tools, all free to use. These are things I wish I had when training, building bikes, or planning.
So far, I’ve been getting pretty good feedback on the route weather planner and the gel recipe. I add new tools as I think of them or encounter needs of my own.
Ha! Yes sure, but it does make sense that they’d keep something like this to themselves.
Creating massive amounts of high quality content efficiently, on a global scale, with seamless global distribution is an incredible competitive advantage.
I don’t see why they would provide it to anyone outside of their ecosystem.
It’ll be interesting to see if they translate this to games as well.
They've been pretty great about pushing for open standards. In the last article their argument to provide these tools for free was along the lines of "A rising tide lifts all boats".
To add to this, while this approach may work for long tail, transactional sales with low ACVs, and work very well, it will not work for larger strategic/enterprise deals.
Sales teams are alive and well in this area. I’ve been in GTM for nearly my entire career. I have yet to see a company closing 6+ figure deals on a credit card and without a relationship.
As a career proposal specialist, I’m in complete agreement with you. Large deals take significant pursuit and documentation…at the Fortune level enterprise or for regional / state-level agreements in the US, it’s a highly competitive process. I’ve seen this first hand in SaaS sales for municipal clients and it’s simply a cost of doing business for certain markets. AI can’t be trusted with proposal responses that may be catastrophic in the contract phase.
Relationship may be secondary in a large SaaS company (you may see new key account once a year or two), but 6 figures mean paying by invoice, custom discounts and there will be inevitably some KYC process. CEO or CCO can do it and in boutique business they do it, but you probably cannot have lots of customers AND such deals at the same time.
“ Federal workers at the Social Security Administration (SSA) learned Wednesday that a plan was in motion to cut 50% of staff. Tuesday evening an anonymous comment on a well-known industry blog caught the attention of many workers already on high alert about their jobs. The comment said that on a 3pm call, Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek told SSA leadership that, “he wanted a plan to cut 50% of ALL staff, including frontline staff, to him by tomorrow afternoon.”
By early Wednesday afternoon, The American Prospect confirmed the rumor. Dudek, the Elon Musk loyalist I wrote about last week who went from administrative leave to leading the agency after helping the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), planned to cut the workforce in half. The move could affect tens of thousands of employees across the country, and far more people who rely on the agency for monthly checks that keep them afloat.
"Can say unequivocally that such deep cuts to SSA, which is already at historically low staffing, will cause significant to extreme degradation of services,” an SSA employee texted me Wednesday afternoon, “very likely including checks missed and individuals dying before their claims can be processed.” ”
Seems pretty grim. Do all these cuts aim towards essentially moving the work that still needs to be done to the private sector? Or is there something else I’ve missed that will help to keep the work going?
In short, tesla is not viewed as favorably as other car companies. And in the end, what they offer isn’t much differentiated from competitors that offer similar products.
